Bolton: NATO Should Have Topped Gadhafi Sooner

The NATO should have acted sooner to help Libyan forces topple Muammar Qaddafi, John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador at the United Nations said.

“There’s no doubt, his regime is finished,” Bolton told Bloomberg Television in an interview from Cernobbio, Italy, today. “We wasted six months. We could have shattered the regime and this thing could have been long over.”

He also said that there’s “a lot of work that needs to be done” and that there’s “fundamentally a division within the Libyan society.” Even “if Qaddafi disappeared tomorrow, many of these conflicts will still exist.”

To contact the reporter on this story: David Tweed in Tokyo at dtweed@bloomberg.net