benefit. but as you said at the end, this is not going to be the determination tomorrow for his re-election. osama bin laden notwithstanding. it will be jobs, it will be the economy and growth for the country. i can t see george bush ever saying to the french you take the lead on this one. that won t happen. that s the big difference. he said we don t always need to have america on the front line, we don t need to get involved. but it was the bush foreign policy was there. i think this is the obama doctrine. when obama was running for president, he talked about doing things in real concert with others, being a member of the family of nations instead of being full the texas cowboy out in front of everybody else and come along with us. that s exactly what he did. you re right, it s extraordinary that he would go into a partnership with the british and french and let help a tthem tak lead. but that s with respect to libya. that s not what happened in afghanistan. he upped the
that. if you say he s got to go, and the gang out there in benghazi can t do it quite obviously, even with american air force, then you ve got to say, look, in the last analysis if we have to do a northern alliance with americans going in there and throwing him out, that s what we ve got to do because he cannot survive. but you ve got to make the command decision and then everything falls into place. this is what too many times american leaders do, they stumble into a war like this. where we now put ourselves into a position where gadhafi can t survive but who replaces gadhafi? we don t know. is it going to be elements of al qaeda? it s a horrible situation. this shoot first and ask questions later i just don t think that s how that s where we are, mika. he did not shoot first. he took 31 days. wdotkno replacing gadhafi. who s going t replace gadhafi? he doesn t know. we re in a terrible position. yes. terrible position. maybe donald trump will go
the portions are too small. he s probably doing the right thing. donald trump, you apparently don t know what you re talking about. look, libya has two to three percent of the world s oil. opec is sitting back and laughing at us. they sit down and set the price of oil. there is so much oil at sea, ships are floating at sea, they don t know what to do with it. oil is artificially set, not by libya, but by the people sitting around, the 12 men sitting around the table saying the stupid american leadership is not doing anything to us, we will drain them, and we will drain them now. so don t tell me about libya. the fact is, that opec is setting phony prices for oil, and we do nothing about it. our leadership does nothing about it, and they could, because if it wasn t for us, opec wouldn t exist. the intriguing thing about gadhafi is, of course, until
see to believe. i m joined again by my panel, governor bill richardson, republican anthony weiner and donald trump. let me start with you, i can see you shaking your head furiously at what donald trump was saying. i was shaking my head at you as well. back to back questions, at once it was how come we re not getting support from the rest of the country. part of being a coalition like nato, a country like the united states you have to put together coalitions so you re not doing all the heavy lifting. it s sheer folly to believe that the international oil supply is not a fungible thing. if you think it doesn t impact u.s. economy, it does, but that s not why the president said we were going in, he said because we re a country that doesn t sit by and let people be
coalition aircraft in the air and off the seas, but it really passes to the diplomats now to figure out how to move forward on this. but the no-fly zone is in place. it just needs tweaking, correct? that s the indication to us. normally there are mobile radars, radars on mobile anti-aircraft systems. we know libya has some of these. when they come up, they re a nuisance, they re a threat as admiral courtney said. prefer to fly around them rather than against them. so unless they make a nuisance of themselves, maybe they ll escape being struck. so where do we stand now in this battle? well, thing we stand where people wanted it to be. gadhafi can t use heavy weapons against the opposition. i suppose he could launch an infantry attack inside benghazi