Obama's worst mistake intervening in domestic affairs of other countries
US PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA said on Sunday the worst mistake of his presidency was "a lack of planning" for the aftermath of the 2011 toppling of Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi. People's Daily Overseas Edition commented on Wednesday:
Despite viewing Libya today as a "mess" and accusing his European allies, including British Prime Minister David Cameron and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, of being "distracted by a range of other things" after the operation, Obama still insisted that intervening in Libya had been "the right thing to do".
In Syria, too, the actions of the US and its Western allies caused the Bashar Assad administration to lose control of large swathes of its land by imposing economic sanctions on and diplomatically isolating the country.
