President Obama reasserted America's accountability as a world leader to prevent atrocities Monday as he defended interference in Libya amid critic concerned with the cost of military action and involvement in another war.
"To brush aside America's responsibility as a leader and – more profoundly – our responsibilities to our fellow human beings under such circumstances would have been a betrayal of who we are. Some nation may be able to turn a blind eye to atrocities in other countries. The united States of America is different. And as president, I refuse to wait for the images of slaughter and mass graves ahead of taking action," he said during a speech at the National protection University in Washington D.C.
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