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Jake Sullivan

...in Russia's abstention on the Libya intervention in 2011. So I will defen...
...in Tunisia, then in Egypt, then in Libya , then in Syria, then in Yemen, then i...
...the instances that came out of it in Libya and Syria, which I really want to tal...
...or not to use force, particularly in Libya and then a little bit later in Syria...
...in Syria. So I wanted to start with Libya , if we could, and I wanted to ask wha...

...intervention in [Muammar al-] Gaddafi's Libya in March of 2011. I had taken over a...
...Clinton about the situation in Libya and what the options were for which sh...
...Clinton's memoir and the chapter on Libya , and it's striking how much emphasi...
...Michael Lewis called “The Decision on Libya : 51-49 Call” [read: “Obama's Way”] ...
...For her part, when the crisis in Libya began—when Gaddafi began shootin...
...coalition to protect civilians in Libya was that set of consultations wit...
...Obama has said he regrets about Libya was the inability or failure to pla...
...thinking that what was playing out in Libya was not adhering to what the US plan...
...the reconstruction and the security of Libya . The issue was, to me, that we ha...
...rebuilt, the politics on the ground in Libya simply didn't permit those things t...
...our actual capacity to shape events in Libya was extraordinarily limited. And tha...
...explicit talk about, “Well, we've done Libya ; we're not doing Syria. We can't d...
...Obama engaged in the operation in Libya , took that step when he had som...
...engaged in the military operations in Libya . Then it escalated after the Liby...
...in Libya. Then it escalated after the Libya operation had finished, as things wer...
...to deteriorate on the ground in Libya . So you also had a circumstance wher...
...where we've just done this thing in Libya . It was an extended, protracte...
...move in Syria, because it just, after Libya , was not a particularly thinkabl...

Avril Haines

...Or it was in the context of Yemen or in Libya or in a whole series of areas where w...

Ricardo Zúniga

...time of the opening of operations in Libya . And, in fact, the motorcade from th...

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