Barack Obama Defends US Military Involvement -- The Daily Telegraph
President Barack Obama has offered a moral justification for the coalition military campaign in Libya, saying it had averted a massacre of Col Gaddafi's opponents.
In a nationally televised address the US president answered domestic critics who have questioned the reasons and goals of the mission.
Mr Obama said that allowing the Libyan leader's forces to enter the rebel-held city of Benghazi would have "stained the conscience of the world", and resulted in a massacre that would have offered a green light to other dictators in the regions to commit violence against their peoples.
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