Libya - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Libya Index / Locations Transcripts Leon Panetta ...happened in Egypt, what happened in Libya , what happens in Syria eventually—an... ...we had—particularly with regards to Libya —made the decision along with NAT... ...that, in many ways, what we did in Libya was to, in effect, eventually get ri... ...in place. And so, I could see that with Libya . Yemen was another place where ou... ...of what was going on? Tunisia, Egypt, Libya , Syria, Bahrain, it spreads relativel... ...for—how do we approach stabilizing Libya and Yemen and Syria and Bahrain an... ...that were part of it, and look at Libya the same way, look at Syria in the sam... ...of course, our military operations in Libya as part of the NATO coalition—... ...of course, haven't really delved into Libya or Syria, but whether some of th... Show more... Huma Abedin ...she— It was, like, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya , Syria, and Bahrain is in there a... ...it into words. I remember landing in Libya , and the Zlitan fighters greeting th... Esther Brimmer ...Spring, the subsequent intervention in Libya . I wondered, and this is an entirel... Daniel Fried ...we weren't sending any back to Syria or Libya . We decided we could send them back t... Pranav Shetty ...to Haiti at that time and I went to Libya at that time. Haiti was relativel... ...short, maybe a few weeks. And I was in Libya during the Arab Spring Revolution fo... ...first experience with that was in Libya first, but as an employee wit... Jeffrey Bader ...the Middle East, Syria in particular, Libya , fast migrations of people across th... ...where I was a fly on the wall, like on Libya for example, whether to intervene i... ...for example, whether to intervene in Libya or whether to intervene in Syria, wher... ...the better, in my view. In the case of Libya and much of the Arab Spring, th... ...mean, I saw it on the fringes, like the Libya decisions. There was a lot o... John Podesta ...interesting to see what was going on in Libya . I mean, he thought that was—they wer... Omezzine Khelifa ...in the country with our borders, with Libya who collapsed and had different civi... ...was peaceful Southern Europe. Also with Libya and the radicalization, the violen... Charles Kupchan ...want to go into Syria, did go into Libya before I was working there but wasn't... ...we went in to Iraq, we went in to Libya , and it's been a mess. Why are w... ...heightened his concern. One of them was Libya , where the Russians and the Chines... ...There were still migrants coming from Libya and various efforts to deal with tha... ...from Afghanistan and from North Africa, Libya . So they had the problem in a mor... Victoria Nuland ...were fascinating, including after the Libya military operation where [Muammar al-... ...to help them form a government when Libya itself, as one of my colleagues put it... ...at that point, which leads to the Libya policy that we see now. Iraq an... ...from Armenia, Azerbaijan, to Syria, to Libya , to the fact that the Kashmir proble... Load more Transcripts Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Western Hemisphere Western Hemisphere