Story highlights President Obama: Worst mistake was lack of planning after toppling Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi

UK PM David Cameron, along with former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, takes brunt of criticism

(CNN) President Barack Obama said the worst mistake of his presidency was a lack of planning for the aftermath of the 2011 toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

"Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya," he said in a Fox News interview aired Sunday.

This is not the first time in recent weeks he has talked about Libya and the NATO-led intervention which resulted in Gadhafi's death in October of that year, months after NATO first intervened.

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In a profile published last month in The Atlantic , the President told author Jeffrey Goldberg that British Prime Minister David Cameron became "distracted by a range of other things" after the operation.

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