Posted on 03/10/2016 4:10:49 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
David Cameron became "distracted" after the 2011 intervention in Libya, US President Barack Obama has said.
Speaking to the Atlantic magazine, he said the operation went as well as he had hoped, but Libya was now "a mess".
The article also said he had warned the PM the UK would have to pay its "fair share" and spend 2% of GDP on defence.
In response, Number 10 said there were "many difficult challenges" in Libya, while the White House said it deeply valued the UK's contributions.
Downing Street did not comment on President Obama's remark to the PM about defence spending, reportedly made before Chancellor George Osborne said the government would fulfil a Nato pledge to spend 2% of national income on defence last year.
In response to the interview, a spokesman for the US National Security Council said Mr Cameron had been "as close a partner as the president has had" adding that "we deeply value the UK's contributions on our shared national security and foreign policy objectives".
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Dear BBC,
We know you are leftist and, as such, live on the left half of the Bell Curve.
But, Dorkbama the Muslim is dumber than a loon and is quite possibly not all there.
So, pay no attention to the dork in front of the curtain.
It’s always someone else’s fault. 0bama, Hillary and McCain turned Libya into a giant ISIS training camp.
With Obama, there’s always an excuse why it’s someone else’s fault.
If Cameron and the Europeans wanted to mess up Libya, fine, let them bomb the country themselves. We should had stayed out of it.
Like Colin Powell once told President Bush "you break the vase (referring to Iraq), you keep the pieces"
Agreed. I’m also angry with the GOPe weasels who made big noises about the illegality of bombing Libya back into the stone age, had a clear reason to impeach the Jug-eared poseur, and then dropped it all like it never happened.
May they all be dropped into an ISIS camp with a Swiss Army knife and a tattoo of Mohammad on their foreheads.
Our president is a real jackass.
We can't really go ahead and impeach Obama since after all he's our first Black President.
Just like a Progressive limp d!ck to lay his criminal failures on someone else .... he and Benghazi Clinton own the Libya failure .... own it girls!
Obama said Libya “Went as well as he hoped”?
So our peace loving Democrat President wanted them to stick a bayonet up Qadaffi’s ass.
He’s been eating the magic mushrooms again.
Obviously Obama never applied lessons we learned in Iraq to Libya.
No, certainly not. If a black president were held accountable for his actions that would mean that black people are equal to the rest of us. Liberals would never stipulate to that. A third of their demagoguery points would become moot.
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