New York (CNN)The Obama administration's controversial decision to intervene in Libya against the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi was correct, despite a "very challenging" aftermath, according to Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
"It seemed as though the benefits of acting militarily -- if we could obtain U.N. Security Council support -- exceeded the costs, in light of ... what we were seeing unfolding on the ground," Power told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast produced by CNN and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
"I think we also had a sense -- and this is something you never really hear talked about today -- that Humpty Dumpty was already broken. There had already been a revolution and a revolution where people had expressed their revolt and revulsion at Gadhafi's form of rule over so many decades," she said. "The idea that this was going to be put tidily back into the box if one just stood back, I think, was extremely unlikely ... It's not as if (Gadhafi) goes into Benghazi and hunts people down like rats and that's the end of this revolution. So some amount of instability is going to exist in this area now that it's been unleashed."
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