friday, friday you are ruining a great song. you are i can making it better. if qaddafi stays in power, won t he consider to do bad things? the plan is we hope by bombing him he will change his ways. it is lope hope and change. and yes we can, andy. the re-election campaign should be hope and bombs. then he will lose the nobel peace prize for sure. greg, you said the entrance strategy has to be the exit strategy. i would argue with you if thatent in anything. i m basically saying you get in and do your business and leave. they are both the same. ind could of like when i go shopping. i was hoping bill would keep quiet after you said that. 9th circuit says lives are protected. you said, quote, this week the appeals court struck down the valor act that made it impossible to lie about
public on going to war or conflict? i think they were all difficult decisions. you saw president reagan, three clips there of lebanon, grenada and libya. president george w. bush had a couple. i think they all do it well. the country rallies, think to remember, when the decisions are made we rally around the flag. typically it is a matter of what s the exit strategy, and that s when things go a little awry if there s no exit strategy. i think our presidents do that very well, they know how to capture the moment and the mood and deliver the explanation. then it is a matter of how it is executed. yet i found it surprising that the actual announcement we were going to war only happened five times. i find that somewhat surprising given the amount of times we have gone into conflicting areas. yeah, it is pretty rematchable. we had a lot of conflicts. the korean war was a police action. i think going to congress and getting a war resolution is different. if you remember with george h.w
hillary clinton, that the feeling around the table is look, if we hit him hard the first few days, the quote from everyone around that table was, he won t last long. he s already lasted too long as far as some members of the coalition are concerned. nato takes over, what does that mean? it means on the ground this mission will change. nato is a completely different structure. there is no way that the air strikes will be able to be as nimble and also to what end? i think around the table, many are asking themselves, saying look, we ve given it our best shot. at this point we have to try something else. let s stay on theme with that, david. end-game strategies, you wrote today in the new york times that most allies expected military force would lead to talks between gadhafi and the rebels. what are you hearing about a possible endgame or exit strategy? is a negotiated settlement even possible now? i don t think personally that s very likely. i don t see the gadhafi regime very warm
this has happened. that s what the integrated command structure of nato was all about. that s why getting the command structure in place is extremely important and not winging it here, get something in place that can give good command and control and clarity of mission. the clarity of mission is critical now. what is the end result and what is is exit strategy? first of all, i read the 1973 u.n. resolution. there is some very, very clear points in there that has to be made. the challenges for the military commander, which i found, again, in the balkans was to operationalize that. what does it mean to take all necessary steps? how do you translate that? how do you translate peace accords into a mission? that is what i hope happens in the next few days. should the u.s. and nato and others arm the rebels? again, that s a challenge. then what?
nimble and also to what end? i think around the table, many are asking themselves, saying look, we ve given it our best shot. at this point we have to try something else. let s stay on theme with that, david. end-game strategies, you wrote that most allies expected military force would lead to talks between gadhafi and the rebels. what are you hearing about a possible endgame or exit strategy? is a negotiated settlement even possible now? i don t think personally that s very likely. i don t see the gadhafi regime very warm and meaningful talks with the rebels. the rebels believe that if gadhafi is in power, they re dead, and i don t think they perceive a scenario where gadhafi remains in power and most of them continue to live. so i don t think there s going to be much talks on that front. and i think gadhafi s families is so interwoven in the fabric of government here.