cowardly yeah craven way either of those is going to be bad for barack obama. sean: he dithered on the afghanistan troop issue. then he didn t give the generals what they were asking for. similarly, he couldn t come out in defense of those students that were fighting for freedom in 2009 in iran. we saw this in egypt, same thing. it is sort of like he we don t know what his foreign policy is. we don t know what his objective is, his exit strategy is. i suspect, that the liberals that are opposing him are gonna have a profound him pack on his future decision-making on this. do you agree? i think they are, this could be the thing that catalyzes a primary against him. i think there is something more important. you are getting at it. foreign policy is how we learn
the opposition hopes 1 million people will take to the streets pressing for yemen s president to step down now after decades in power. in libya rebels setting conditions for a ceasefire there, saying they will accept a truce if mo mommar qaddafi pulls all troops from city, this as reports of his son saif sent an envoy to londonfor talks on an exit strategy. jeraldo rivera, streaming live from the strong hold of benghazi, jeraldo, what s going on? reporter: hi jon. behind me, a group of a couple hundred kids it looks like have just shown up here at onar square, a square named for a libyan freedom fighter who fought against the italians during the colonial period in libya but now it has great symbolism obviously for the rebels.
kim jong il is a disaster. president obama is going to have to answer questions. sean: you had four questions you want answers to. one was, what is the obama standard for deciding to intervene? how do we define success? you say what are we prepared to do to achieve that success? how is the president going to pay for it? what is an exit strategy? first of all, you have, i think two very different moments. prior to march 3rd, the united states should have taken a quiet, careful, indirect route that would have gotten rid of qadhafi without using american force and without using overt american action. there are ways you can do that. after march 3rd, when president obama said this is his own words, qadhafi must go. well, if the president of the united states says that and he
koussa. that obviously did not happen it is unclear why. there were some reports that the intelligence chief himself might be preparing to defect. he denied that today, phoning in to libyan state tv to say it simply was not true, shep? shepard: in a new development, jonathan, that really sounds promising. qaddafi loyalists are now even reportedly trying to find the regime an exit strategy from all of this. yes. first of all you have this former libyan prime minister telling british tv news channel, channel 4, that he believes officials are reaching out to the u.s., britain, and france to have conversations about this. and then we have confirmation now that a senior aid to qaddafi s eldest son actually traveled to britain in the last few days and held conversations there. now, one western diplomatic source told the british guardian newspaper that there were clear signals that the sons have had enough and may be looking for a way out. that could, of course, mean that there is a split
that there are some street gangs here in the u.s. that have more firepower and better command and control than these rebels if you look at that report from richard eng engel. the rebels, the opposition, obviously cannot go up against the libyan military without some kind of outside support. and the u.s. military still contends they re not supporting the rebels, what they re doing is a humanitarian gesture. by the way, very quickly, the french defense forces have now confirmed that one of their war planes struck a libyan military plane after it landed at an airstrip there in misratah, but we had heard that it very well could have been a trainer as opposed to a war plane. jim miklaszewski, thank you for weighing in on all of that. president obama will bring his national security team together this afternoon for a review of the libyan operation. the president insists the united states will hand over control within days. the exit strategy will be