Don’t forget the Italians were involved too.
I don't know if Obama resisted or if it was the US military or if Clinton dragged Obama reluctantly into joining the overthrow.
Clearly that idiot Clinton did not think Libya would devolve into jihadi terror camps - but Qaddafi warned that was exactlt who he was fighting. He was mostly right. Same situation in Syria - only there the Euros wanted the USA to strike because they lacked the capacity to do so so far from their operational bases in France and Italy.