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Obama authorized the military intervention in Libya to save the lives of peaceful, pro-democracy protesters who found themselves the target of a crackdown by their dictator Muammar al- Qaddafi. In effect, in Libya, Obama repeated the same mistake of winning the war and losing the peace that Bush had committed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Syrian civil war proved to be a monumental humanitarian disaster. The authorization for the use of military force against the government of Syria to respond to use of chemical weapons is a United States Senate Joint Resolution that would have authorized President Barack Obama to use the American military to intervene in the ongoing Syrian civil war. Obama was roundly criticized for not doing enough to end the war. While he conceded that the Syria’s civil war was a monumental human tragedy, he placed the blame for it entirely on Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies.