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Mind. i think it is a very interesting experiment, if you will, after the iraq and afghanistan adventures and were working with others. i think we have to look also at the possibility of some kind of a united nations role here. its not inconceivable to me, for example, that at some point the u.n. security council might vote for the establishment of some kind of peace keeping force in benghazi, for example, with a robust mandate to facilitate the eventual political accommodation in libya. >> rich...

Shown that regular arabs want jobs and democracy more than they want an islamic caliphate. women are part of that yearning for change. they played a key role in the changes that have taken place from egypt to tunisia. they are continuing to play a role in bahrain and even libya. if al qaeda is trying to reach that particular market, arab women and its best effort is this, advice on how to get hitched to a terrorist, it makes one wonder, the world must be a safer place. well be right back. okay, ...

Disagree with that analysis. and again, im very uncomfortable with launching a military intervention given the fact that were setting in motion a chain of events. its not simply that we dont know. we have no reason to be confident that the people we are trying to help prevail will institute a form of governance that will necessarily be in our or libyas interest. >> that raises the question about the rebels. who are they and let me go to the ambassador and jane harman, are we sure as richard haas...

This, if youre sitting in iran and see whats going on, not only in the rest of the middle east but particularly in libya, what are you thinking? >> i think the question is, is iran immune from this tidal wave thats sweeping through the region? and i think surely the answer is no. if i were setting in tehran in the government right now i would be shaking in my boots. with syria now under tremendous political pressure, i dont think theres any government in the region thats immune. one of the truly...

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Armies in place. or you could have situations where the intervention fails and you have all sorts of questions then about what the united states does with gadhafi and even if it does succeed again, then we have all sorts of fundamental issues about who it is were helping and are we so sure the opposition will necessarily pursue an agenda that is in the interest of the united states or in the interest of the people of libya. im very unkcomfortable with suh a large commitment given these unknowns....

Countries will change their governments and we cant view libya as a one-off that will turn out -- this could be a very long intervention run by nato, not by us, but we have a lot of expenses involved in being in nato this is a zero sum game in terms of military assets. whatever were putting through this war, we dont have to put in somewhere else in a very dangerous and changing world. >> let me suppose this question. what if gadhafi does agree to a cease fire and the united states is out there s...

The fellow writing this english language magazine called inspire which teaches you how to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom is in yemen. i worry about the threat to our homeland being greatest from yemen than any other place. >> let me put that to ambassador negroponte. put on your director of national intelligence hat and talk about what jane harman is talking about, the fact that yemen is a haven for al qaeda and this could be distracting us from paying enough attention to that. >> first ...

Position to essentially establish and police the sovereignty of the area. libya with ungoverned spaces and terrorists can put down roots. as bad as the situation has been, you dont need a big imagination to see things getting even worse. >> you dont. >> and i totally agree with that and would point out that both the african union and arab league who were according to president obama some of the initial inputs that justified the action we took in support of a no-fly zone, are not really participa...

We shouldnt be in the process of supporting a civil libya. i want to make a comment. this is almost entirely a naval operation. our navy is not heavily engaged in iraq or afghanistan. this is not a major american mission. this is not a third war like iraq and afghanistan. i really think its somewhat it would be deeping. >> it does speak to our leadership in the world, doesnt it? >> this leadership question is kind of a silly debate were having. i think its very good that we have got strong europ...