奧巴馬談任內最大錯誤：利比亞善後欠規劃
President Barack Obama said the worst mistake of his presidency was a lack of planning for the aftermath of the 2011 toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
貝拉克•奧巴馬總統承認，其任期內所犯的最大錯誤就是，在2011年推翻利比亞獨裁者穆阿邁爾•卡扎菲之前未能制定計劃應對後果。
"Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya," he said in a Fox News interview aired Sunday.
在星期日播出的福克斯新聞的訪談中，他說：“我認爲我們在干預利比亞的過程中採取了正確的行動，但或許我們是對行動之後的局面缺少計劃。”
This is not the first time in recent weeks he has talked about Libya and the NATO-led intervention which resulted in Gadhafi's death in October of that year, months after NATO first intervened.
在最近幾週中，這已不是他第一次談起利比亞和以北約爲首的軍事幹涉了。北約第一次進行干涉的幾個月後，同年10月，卡扎菲即死亡。
In a profile published last month in The Atlantic, the President told author Jeffrey Goldberg that British Prime Minister David Cameron became "distracted by a range of other things" after the operation.
上月在《大西洋月刊》發表的一篇傳略中，奧巴馬總統對作者傑弗裏•戈德堡說，英國首相卡梅倫在行動之後就“分心幹別的事去了”。
Cameron, along with former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, took the brunt of Obama's criticism.
法國前總統薩科齊也同卡梅倫一樣受到了奧巴馬的尖銳批評。
Although Obama said he thinks the intervention went as well as it could, he views Libya today as a "mess."
儘管奧巴馬稱對利比亞採取的干預行動已經是所能做的最好的了，但他也認爲現在的利比亞是個“爛攤子”。
In The Atlantic, Obama said he had more faith in Europeans "being invested in a follow-up" given their geographical "proximity" and largely blames their inaction for the "mess."
在《大西洋月刊》中，奧巴馬說他本來寄希望於歐洲國家“投入後續工作”，因爲他們有“地緣優勢”，並在很大程度上把這一“爛攤子”歸咎於他們的不作爲。
Obama said in the Sunday interview that "saving the economy from a great depression" after the financial crisis in 2008 was his top White House accomplishment.
在上週日的訪談中，奧巴馬提到，他在任期內的最大成就是2008年金融危機之後“把經濟從大蕭條中拯救出來”。
And -- as he has before -- he said his best day in the White House was when health care reform passed.
並且，他還再次提到，他在白宮最美好的日子就是醫療改革法案通過的那天。
He also recounted that his worst day in the White House was "the day we traveled up to Newtown after Sandy Hook" when 20 children, mostly first-graders, were killed on December 14, 2012 at an elementary school. He spoke at a local prayer vigil two days later.
他還說起他在白宮最糟糕的一天就是“桑迪•胡克槍機案發生後我們前往紐敦市的那天”。2012年12月14日，在桑迪•胡克小學，20個小孩被槍殺，其中多數還在上一年級。事件發生兩天後，奧巴馬在當地守夜祈禱會上發表了講話。
Vocabulary
brunt: 正面的衝擊
vigil: 守夜
