11.04.2016 - 08:19 [ Bloomberg ]

Obama Cites Lack of `Day After‘ Plan in Libya as Biggest Mistake

Asked by host Chris Wallace about the “worst mistake” of his soon-to-end White House years, Obama listed the aftermath of the ouster and death of Moammar Qaddafi, even as he defended the intervention.

“Probably failing to plan for the day after,” Obama said in the session, which was taped at the University of Chicago on April 7. He added that intervening in Libya “was the right thing to do.”