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Over a long period of time. were the only country in the world that can develop and deploy a b-2, for example. the problem here, fundamentally is that president obama has articulated his belief that we should have a multilateral foreign policy. but were trying to do something that only a unilateral in the final analysis, a unilateral power has the capability to do. and were the only ones who fit that description. >> dont you guys enjoy a good "not war?" unbelievable. thank you for the analysis. ...

Ways, qaddafi. martha: lets look at how this has shaped up since operation odyssey dawn as it is known began on saturday. the u.s. has flown 2012 sorties or missions, and the coalition has flown 124. the number of airstrikes on libyan targets, 108. and at least 162 of those tomahawk cruise missiles have been fired into the area, as well. bill: watch this story, too, martha. the debate will pick up on the hill. the mission in libya, costing american taxpayers money. clearly, the price tag easily ...

How did that happen? >> it happens very quickly. what you see here on the map in front of you is called the theater of operations. libya specifically is the area of operations. these are the airfields where the air flights are coming out of and attacking targets into libya. whats important to understand is this is very busy air space. separation so airplanes dont fly into each other is achieved by vertical distance. its important to know over the atlantic or the western med is where refuelling t...

Its partners have done. youre talking about just the northern part of the country, around from benghazi to tripoli. even the cost of that is $32 million to $100 million a week. why does it cost so much? take a look at whats volved. youre talking about an initial barrage of 24 to 48 hours of massive amounts of tomahawk missiles. to date, about 160 of them have been fired. well, those tomahawks, according to the u.s. navy, with everything included, cost about 1.4 milli$1.4 million each. even if th...

Still the united states in the eyes of many around the world, is it not? >> it is. the french went in there. in the american -- our missiles -- [ laughter ] >> b-2, f-16 f-18, all the rest of it. if the united states pulls out of this, they are not going to be able to finish this game. >> the junior varsity over libya. thats great, pat. what do you think about that? >> well, pat buchanan has been on a role over the past couple weeks. harold ford, the bottom line is, in the end, it is the united ...

Set to try the cases are selling faction. how they believe the obama administration may be working to keep these cases out of gitmo. all new, all live "happening now." and good morning to you im jon scott. jenna: im jenna lee. were so glad you are with us. we are here in the fox newsroom. happening right now we have a fox news alert out of libya. the u.s. navy releasing grand new video of the punishing nighttime assaults on qaddafi forces. they are using b.-2 stealth bombers, jet fighters and to...

Gadhafi himself. in fact, it wasnt a personal attack on him, but we feel its a legitimate target because he does have these command and control abilities out of that place. lets take you back a little bit to tell you what led up to that strike last night. this all started with missiles flying from u.s. and british ships on saturday. they fired from the mediterranean sea for one reason. thats because the first target was colonel gadhafis long-range ballistic missiles. those have a range of 150 to...

The president of syria. over the weekend hamas claimed responsibility for more than 50 rockets that were lobbed into israel over the weekend. its the first time in a very longtime that hamas has claimed responsibility for the attacks and the first time weve seen that many rockets being lobbed into israel since 2009. u.s. secretary of defense bob gates will meet with his counterpart in israel later this week. jenna: thank you so much. jon: back to libya and the fallout from two waves of nighttime...

Strikes. these are, according to the defense department, where some of the strikes are, obviously tripoli, which is where gadhafi is, in benghazi you dont see any strike points on that particular map. we know from our reporting out of our own folks at the pentagon that b-2 bombers were deployed, dropping some 40 bombs against air defense systems within libya. what is the concentration in tripoli versus benghazi? >> i think as you look at that, most of those targets were part of his air defense s...

Thank you very much, tamron. good afternoon. president obama, as youve said, answering questions at a press conference along side the president of chile. and at this hour, allied commanders say theyre satisfies with the results of air strikes targeting the military assets of gadhafi. today coalition forces flew between 70 and 80 sorties over the country to enforce the u.n. mandated no-fly zone. over half of those flown by u.s. pilots. this follows a massive bombardment by 124 tomahawk cruise mis...