coming nights ahead. this could be what gadhafi is weighing up as he tries to figure out is he going to continue to push the fight against the opposition at the moment. and at the moment the answer seems to be he s coming up with defiance for the first time. he appeared on television apparently and according to state television, which was live, at his palace compound that was struck just two days ago, calling this, as he had over the past couple of days, a crusader war. he appears to be backing down not one inch here. you know, certainly, his rhetoric has not changed one slightest little bit. what are you hearing from those in his military? do you sense on the part of the military beneath him any sense of doubt, any sense that my goodness, we have europe against us, the arab league against us, we have the might of the united states against us? we the military had better come up with an exit strategy, otherwise our necks are on the line? any sense of doubt within the military ranks
telling americans that the mission is succeeding. the president praised progress made so forces and he said the military effort is part of a larger effort to support the libyan people. our military mission is clear and focused. along with allis and partners, we are enforcing the man date of the united nations security council and protecting the libyan people from qaddafi s forces. today s comments are a lid up to the president s speech monday night in prime time. the president was target from critics over the libyan campaign. members was congress remain splitt on the final goals with the libyan mission with exit strategy and qaddafi s fate uncertain. welcome senator, great to have you here today. good morning, uma. what does the president
one, it takes real tall then to give a speech half hour about libya and not mention the word oil. what distinguishes libya from all these other oppressive regimes, oil, two million barrels a day. secondly, i feel in this whole thing, his whole approach is one in which he s essentially denying that he needs an exit strategy. in which he doesn t talk about how we are going to get out of it. how we are going to get from here to there. sean: didn t define success either. if your definition of success is preventing civilian deaths, welcome on! sean: i would call the obama doctrine, he said this many times, people in need, et cetera. it is in our vital interests. he s brutalizing his people. in many ways he sounded like president bush. wait a minute, do we go to syria, bahrain, saudi arabia. should we have gone into
really willing to accept what s happening. in particular if a bombing escalates in the next few days. they want civilians to be protected. they want to get i mean, to leave libya, to be toppled, but they are suspicious of the western desires and goals over libya, and what s happening in libya reminds millions of arabs what happened in iraq. remember, there s a historical memory. historical memory is still alive, and that s why i fear that the escalation of the coalition goals, the bombing today and the compound of qadhafi sends the wrong message to arabs and libyans as well. do you believe the coalition has a clear mandate and a clear agenda, clear exit strategy as well? when i use the word exit strategy, it s very carefully because we re not talking about ground troopdz. we re talking about a campaign that is decisive. it s quick. they know what the objective is. what is their final objective?
potential for a protracted civil war in libya. and in fact, when we look around the world, there are similar circumstances of unrest, such as on the democratic republic of the congo and yemen and elsewhere. we can t afford to continue to rely upon the deployment, more guns, bombs, possibly troops. i hope not. i believe the president when he says he does not want to send ground troops into libya. but this if this continues, we don t knowç where it s goin. we don t know what the exit strategy is. i haven t seen one. we don t know what the time frame is. of course the administration says it s a matter of days. i think we should begin to extricate ourselves. the white house, congresswoman, says the president met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers before taking any action in libya. again, stressing the wores of