President Obama said the worst mistake of his presidency was a lack of planning for the aftermath of the fall in 2011 of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi . "Probably we fail in planning the post-intervention in Libya day , which I think was the right decision ," he said in an interview on Fox News broadcast Sunday . This is not the first time in recent weeks that he has spoken of Libya and intervention led by NATO, which killed Gaddafi in October of that year, months after the first intervention by NATO . In a profile published last month in The Atlantic, the president told the author Jeffrey Goldberg British Prime Minister David Cameron , " he was distracted because of a range of other matters" after the operation . Cameron , along with the French president , Nicolas Sarkozy , the brunt of criticism from Obama took .
Although Obama said he believes the intervention was as well as could have resulted, he sees Libya today as a "disaster".
In private, according to the article, he refers to the state troubled as a "show of m **** a".
In a statement to CNN, a spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC, its acronym in English) tried to qualify declarations from Obama and ensure that the alliance between the United Kingdom and the United States remains strong.
"Prime Minister Cameron has been such a close partner as it has been the president, and deeply value the contributions of the United Kingdom to our goals of national security and foreign policy shared, which reflect our special and essential relationship," he said NSC spokesman, Ned Price.
In The Atlantic, Obama said he had more faith in the Europeans "will participate in a follow-up" given its geographical "proximity" and largely blames inaction of them for the "disaster".
In Libya, Price said Obama has said before and continues to believe that "all of us including the United States could have done more in the aftermath of the intervention in Libya."
Price said the UK has "intensified its action on a range of issues," including pressure on fellow NATO member countries to increase defense spending.
In September, Obama also criticized the intervention of Libya during a speech to the UN General Assembly.
"Our coalition could and should have done more to fill the void left behind," he had said.
Obama said in the interview on Sunday that "save the economy from a great depression" after the financial crisis in 2008 was his main achievement in the White House.
In addition, as it has done before- he said his best day was when the White House health reform was passed.
"We sat on the Truman balcony with all the staff who had worked so hard on it and I knew what it would mean for families who had known and who had no medical care," Obama said.
He also said his worst day in the White House was "the day after we traveled to Newtown Sandy Hook" when 20 children, mostly first-graders, died on December 14, 2012 at an elementary school. He spoke at a prayer vigil home two days later