Allies Quote by Barack Obama

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that.…

— William Hague

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have…

— Barack Obama

We have a strong military deployment in Iraq and Afghanistan. In countries like Syria, we need a diplomatic breakthrough to end the war. In…

— Paolo Gentiloni

Fortunately in Libya, there's only a few cities on the coast, because most of Libya is a desert. The fact of the matter is,…

— Donald Trump

Speaker John Boehner complained that Barack Obama ordered the U.S. military into combat in Libya without clearly defining the mission to the American people…

— Jay Leno

Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along…

— Barack Obama

I said that we needed to have people on the ground, troops on the ground in a coalition similar to what we had in…

— John Kasich

“In addition to involving the nation in an unauthorized war in Libya that empowered jihadist enemies of the United States, he and his subordinates…

— Andrew McCarthy

Remember, the U.S. is a powerful state, it's not like Libya. If Libya wants to carry out terrorist acts, they hire Carlos the Jackal…

— Noam Chomsky

I was opposed to the U.S. involvement in Libya from the very start. President Obama has never made a compelling national security case on…

— Michele Bachmann

We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is…

— Barack Obama

I did not support the U.S. decision to intervene with military force in Libya. The evidence was not persuasive that a large-scale massacre or…

— Richard N. Haass