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Congress left last week for a scheduled recess. scott said the presidents timing was intentional and anded why did he wait until the day after we adjourned congress. the congress said the administration was working on an international coalition to come together and united nations to approve the resolution to authorize the use of force in libya. harris? >> the president is planning to speak to the nation on monday night, what do we expect to hear? >> his weekly address may be a preview of the spe...

Thus the first attack launched is not against an enemy air feel or plane and a ballistic missile site it is against a ground force. >> sean: how dangerous is this the obama doctrine emerging is theres a need for humanitarian assistance. we are going to send our military and do it with a coalition. by the way they may not be under the command and control of our own president. we dont have any stated goal going in. where do we go next, china, russia, iran? where are we going if that is the standar...

Convinced mel lows vich to get out. so, yes, there is a precedent for this. it doesnt necessarily have to have all the way through to a ground invasion. and here you have a ground force with the opposition. now they may not be capable of doing what needs to be done, and thats a factor thats going to have to be taken into account. >> the coalition seems to be fighting for basically a stalemate between the coalition and the rebels. >> gadhafi was well on his way to ravaging benghazi, he promised n...

What theyre trying to do is basically a humanitarian issue, so that he stops bombing his people. what do you make of all this? >> my view is that weve already picked sides. clearly were on the sides of trying to facilitate the rebel the opposition caused and i think what youre going to see is a military mission thats been relatively clearly defined, its a no fly zone, although its not really, and its going to creep to what is now being stated as a political objective. i think those two are going...

Radars. air attacks have succeeded in stopping regime ground forces from advancing to benghazi and we are now seeing ground forces moving southward from benghazi. we will, of course, watch these ground force movements closely and through a variety of reports, we know that regime ground forces that were in the vicinity of benghazi now possess little will or capability to resume offensive operations. i would note the economics on the coalition to conduct our operations with precision, with very hi...

You may know i moonlight. tonight at 11:00 p.m. true nba, a magazine program about the nba. fabulous pieces in that tonight if you need a break from the war and nuclear news. lets close with a look at whats happened in libya over the course of the past few days once the international coalition decided to launch military action. watch this play out. saturday the first strikes come. cruise missiles, air strikes here. you see them on the coast. sunday air strikes against ground forces. tanks and ot...

Earlier, theres a very big limit to what air power can actually achieve. >> reporter: thats absolutely right. thats absolutely correct. if the u.s. learned anything over the years thats certainly a lesson weve learned, as the u.s. has learned as a military force in both iraq and afghanistan, havent they? in afghanistan, we have seen the growth of a ground force in order to move against the taliban and the insurgents because it cant be done from the air. p we saw the same thing in iraq for many y...

Gadhafi would like to get into benghazi as quickly as he can. if his forces can get into benghazi, at that point in time, air power is going to really become meaningless, because you cant use air power to extract gadhafis infantry from an urban environment. what air power can do is it can prevent its forces from getting to benghazi, but once theyre there, its pretty much going to become moot unless someone is willing to deploy a huge ground force. and i dont see anybody wanting to do that. so ga...

As the bloodshed in libya continues, there are more calls for the obama white house to help the andy gadhafi forces there is little appetite for any commitment of american ground force, mind you, but some in congress advice helping to arm and advice the opposition. and the leading suggestion is to impose a no-fly zone so that the gadhafi regime cannot use its air force to attack the opposition. my next guest, however, warns even a very limited u.s. military commitment at the outset could grow in...

Options are on the table. what are we talking about? a lot of talk in washington this week and in europe about a no-flow fly zone. secretary gates at the pentagon says, you know, he calls that loose talk. he says thats the equivalent of essentially going to war. you would have to start bombing libyas radar sites to enforce it and its not clear what that would achieve because gadhafi has significant ground force capability. this is not just air strikes hes using against people. next, what arming ...