(12.4.2016) During a telling interview with Fox News this weekend, Obama admitted that „failing to plan for the day after“ the 2011 U.S.-backed toppling of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was „worst mistake“ of his presidency.

The admission followed similar comments made by the president in a lengthy interview with the Atlantic published this month during which he called Libya „a mess“ and privately described the failed state as a „shit show.“

Given that the overthrow of Gaddafi is „one of the policies cited by Clinton as one of her chief accomplishments,“ as Vanity Fair‘s Tina Nguyen notes, Obama‘s statements could be problematic for the former secretary of state.