VOA慢速英語：奧巴馬：這是我最嚴(yán)重的錯誤

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Ousting Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi without astrategy for what followed was his worst mistake, saysPresident Barack Obama.

In 2011, NATO-led forces ousted the Libyan dictator.After that, Libya fell into chaos and turmoil.

Obama said his administration failed “to plan for the dayafter” Gadhafi was ousted. However, he said, taking action in Libya to protectcivilians from Gadhafi’s forces was “the right thing to do.”

Gadhafi was captured and killed months after the United States and Europeannations began air attacks. The country was left in chaos. Militias took control, and two competing parliaments and governments were formed.

Libya became a place migrants used to get to Europe. This helped worsenEurope’s immigration crisis.

A unity government supported by the United Nations is in the capital Tripoli. But neither of the country’s two competing parliaments has announcedsupport for a peace agreement.

Obama said Libya is now a “mess.”

On Monday, Obama’s spokesman Josh Earnest noted that in a speech inSeptember 2015 to the U.N. General Assembly, Obama said “our coalitioncould have and should have done more to fill a vacuum left behind.”

Earnest said the president believes the United States and other nations havenot given Libya the help it needs to become stable.

The president asks “about what situation will prevail and what sort ofcommitments from the international community will be required after” militaryaction has been ordered by the president, Earnest told reporters.

Obama said his greatest accomplishment during his more than seven years in office was saving the economy from collapsing.

The 2008 and 2009 economic recession was the worst in the United Statessince the 1930s. Millions of people lost their jobs and were unable to pay theirhome loans. Since then, the economy has improved, and the jobless rate ismuch lower.

Obama said the best day of his presidency was in 2010, when Congress approved national health care reforms that came to be called Obamacare. Theprogram has given health insurance to millions of people who did not have it.

Obama said the worst day of his presidency was in late 2012, when he visitedthe small town of Newtown, Connecticut, two days after a gunman killed 20students and six teachers at an elementary school.

Obama leaves office in January.

I’m Bruce Alpert.

Words in This Story

chaos – adj. complete confusion and disorder; a state in which behavior andevents are not controlled by anything

vacuum – n. a situation created when an important person or thing has goneand has not been replaced

accomplishment – n. something done or achieved successfully