#libya

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. ↗

— Barack Obama

#agents #around #been #decades #denied

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners. ↗

— Barack Obama

#america #capabilities #end #focus #front

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake. ↗

— Barack Obama

#along #better #better off #broadening #change

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America. ↗

— Barack Obama

#action #am #america #carried #convinced

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself. ↗

— Susan Rice

#i #libya #myself #streets #walked

Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#alive #iraq #libya #qaeda #receding

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that. ↗

— David Kay

#discovered #extensive #far #libyan #more

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#been #business #deal #difficult #finished

The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya. ↗

— Fareed Zakaria

#libya #quite #situation #syria

The president of the United States let the consulate in Libya become a death trap. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#death #libya #president #states #trap