“President Obama enlisted our allies, built the coalition, shared the burden, so that today, without a single American casualty, Moammar Gadhafi is gone, and the people of Libya are free,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in his primetime speech at the Democratic Convention in 2012.

“From Burma to Libya to South Sudan,” Obama said the next day as he accepted the nomination, “we have advanced the rights and dignity of all human beings.”