it s a humanitarian interest. would you have come on the show saying i m glad the president did nothing he should have let those people did. there s 700,000 in benghazi. gadhafi has taken three towns. there s been no massacre there. because of what we did. he took three towns. commentator being president. it didn t happen, because we stopped it from happening. how did you know it was going to happen? he said he was going to go house to house to get the germs. and disinfectants. he has won the war, every battle, and he hasn t done that yet. america still doesn t have the authority to attack him simply because let s talk about the constitution. generally defined. here s article vi of the constitution the constitution and the laws of the united states which shall be made in pursuance thereof and all treaties made or which shall be made, under the authority of the united states shall be the supreme law of the land. is our participation in the u.n. a law of the land? y
unlikely. the problem we got is we have a u.n. resolution that did nothing but say we ll set up a safe haven in libya and authorized use of force. we re way beyond a no fly zone. there s no way it s not working. do we want it to work in the long run? we may be wrong. do we like the rebels? can the mujahedeen end up being al qaeda. do we want them to win? the answer is yes to all of those. i think we probably do want them to win is because the alternative is gadhafi. that s a terrible idea. some rebels would like democracy but it s not clear they know what is it. there s a bunch of tribesmen and jihadists like al qaeda in there. al qaeda is a jihadist group. ultraconservative, muslim fundamentalist. have they been global in their reach? have they been out to get us.
predawn hours in libya, he was taken away in civilian cars and then later rescued. let me ask you about the outlook for the rebels. you say they are despondent because they don t have the military necessaries to get things done in taking on tripoli. do they say the united states or anybody else taking down gadhafi, killing him, whatever? what do they see or think is happening to the leader of the country? reporter: they want gadhafi to go, but not just gadhafi, also his son. a lot of the focus has been on moammar gadhafi himself. but really it s his son, the bald-headed son who s on television a lot who has been running libya for the last several years. so they think it s important to get rid of gadhafi and his son and other members of gadhafi s family that run military units. they would love it here in benghazi if gadhafi were suddenly to be taken out.