second, nobody will believe it anyway. even as a political matter, it starts out as a dead failure. megyn: there s been a lot of criticism of the president, even from some on the level about our exit strategy. the president said it will be days, not weeks. he doesn t want unended commitment in libya, but what is our exit strategy? thoughts? i don t think we have much of an entrance strategy. we do have a legitimate national interest in eliminating moammar qaddafi from power to make sure that he doesn t return to pursuing nuclear weapons and terrorism. what the president is pursuing here, what his white house advisors have pushed him into, is following an idea, a fantasy called the responsibility to protect. it s a notion by people around the world that somebody, mainly
frightening. the president can make a decision. conflicting messages within the administration. they can t define what the actual mission is. now he s got the left wing of his own party . which tells me the president is going to try to bail out as soon as he can. france and great britain leading the way any way. your thoughts? i have a column on this on my website that i just wrote. the powell doctrine is the one we should follow in this situation. which says, first we need to avoid mission creep. second, we need to have clear objective. thirdly, before you go in, you need an exit strategy. he has failed on all three counts. we ve already had mission creep. this was sold as a no-fly zone to stop qadhafi s air force from attacking rebels and killing civilians. now it has gone way beyond that we are bombing his armor and striking his armed forces nothing to do with no-fly. secondly, they said our goal was to protect civilians.
but it s unprecedented for a leader not to go to congress. we ve seen this time and time again. new york it s not unprecedented but that does not mean that this is the correct way to proceed when you re going to commit guns and bombs and missiles and human lives into what could possibly turn into an all-out civil war. and i think it s very important that the public recognize that and insist on a debate. i mean, it s after the fact but i think that we need to be called back into congress and we need to have a serious discussion and debate aboutç this. and i m very concerned about where this could lead. again, we have no exit strategy. we don t know how many days, how many weeks, we don t know what this means in terms of dollars.p as the third war. we re in iraq, we re in afghanistan. we can t afford to be in another
war-making authority and act as commander in chief, and whether or not congress decides you made the right decision depends on what the outcome in, but it is significant that you ve got not only people on the left like den knit kucinich saying that the president is waging war. he even said it might be an impeachable offense, but people like richard lugar, former chairman of the foreign relations committee, who s been an ally of the president on some issues, he has real misgivings about this operation, the goals and timetable and exit strategy is, so he s saying we need a debate as well. so you re spanning the spectrum. it s very blurry about what the end game is. we ll continue to wait and watch and see how this is specified for all of us. john hardwood, thank you. famed investor warren buffett is urging investors to take notice of the economic silver lining presented by the
ask for the libya strike. so you d have to see where we re at right now. but the higher levels and the higher workings of government felt they were not briefed. people on capitol hill are saying exactly what is the mission? it hasn t been spelled out to us, what s the exit strategy and what s the end game here? president obama says he has been quite clear what he wants out of libya. let s look back and hear what he says. i want to take this opportunity to update the american people about the situation in libya. our focus has been clear. protecting innocent civilians within libya and holding the qaddafi regime accountable. so we must be clear, actions have consequences and the writ of the international community must be enforced. i also have stated that it s u.s. policy that qaddafi needs to go. when it comes to our military action, we are doing so in support of u.n. security resolution 1973. that specifically talks about