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Thats totally consistent with what i call the obama doctrine, that other countries are going to have to do more in a more diverse international order. >> but this is war. i mean you cant extinguish our knowledge about war. this idea that you can have a limited video game, it just isnt the way it is. no one knows more about this than tom ricks. and the question is, whats going on here, and the larger picture is what savannah is calling the arab spring. im not sure whether its unrest, an up heevl,...

And, therefore, its something else that will have to go or it simply adds to the deficit. >> let me ask you, finally, can the u.s. and its allies accomplish the mission that theyve set out to achieve if moammar gadhafi remains in power? >> probably not. in large part, since we have taken the position that moammar gadhafi is an especially evil, bad dictator and we have now indicated, the president said, that he must go, he lacks legitimacy and so forth, others have made the same statement, but if...

Shouldnt have intervened ought all. they either sound inconsistent or a lot more like president bush who became quite unpopular within republican circles and the country at large on the war. >> i dont think youre hearing much detail from the putative republican candidates for president for good reason. they dont know any more than the rest of us how this thing will turn out, and at the moment, they have the luxury of sitting back and letting things develop before they come out and take a hard po...

There is deep unhappiness, as there should be, about, do we know whats going on in these countries? in the intelligence agencies are scrambling because they covered the leaders and not the people who with were the revolutionaries or the rebels or the people involved in this upheaval. >> ted koppel, part of the issue here, as secretary gates has said in a different context, were in a dark territory here. we dont know how things are going to turn out in libya, in egypt, in yemen, in syria. through...

And the middle east. we want to see no violence. we want to see peaceful protests that enable people to express their universal human rights. we want to see economic and political reform. thats what we called on in syria. and thats what weve called on other governments across the region to do. >> what about saudi arabia? we go back to secretary gates. back to the map, the king is quite upset with the president. the relationship has ruptured to the point that he has sent troops into bahrain. he w...

>> the militarys stretched pretty thin. look at this map to show what our commitments are around the globe. in iraq, of course, we have 47,000 troops, in afghanistan, 100,000 strong, and now this additional commitment of u.s. troops -- not troops but u.s. assets in libya. how does the president, speaking to the nation monday night, maintain a sense of national purpose here at a time when were so stretched? >> actually your list was incomplete. we have a substantial military commitment in humanit...

Action, the arab league called on the security council to do exactly what the security council ended up doing. the united states and other countries were in a position to be able to act to enforce it. if you look at the coverage on al jazeera, if you listen to the statements put out on the opposition in libya, theres great deal of appreciation for what we and others have done in order to stop gadhafi on his mission of merciless oppression. so this was an international effort that the united stat...

We wont be the ones enforcing the no-fly zone. it wont be our ships enforcing the arms embargo. you see that reluctance shot through his rhetoric. >> tom ricks, we began the discussion this morning, richard engel reporting on the rebel, theyre getting closer to tripoli. then what? thats the moment we leave? are we going to supply the rebels? i mean if gadhafi stays, can we really say mission accomplished? >> i think theyll say we can. all obama is saying is give war a chance. not all war. all we...

This would be an enormous blot on the presidency, worse because the president would be seen as partly encouraging it. u.s. military is very unhappy with this. a lot of people in the military read my blog and almost every single comment posted on the blog from military people have been questioning of this. they hate it, are scared by it, especially when they hear terms like "limited war." that evokes lyndon johnson going into vietnam. on the other hand, i would say this is very much in the americ...

800,000 people died. >> is the question politically on whats happened on the left, i spoke to dennis kucinich as part of our midweek "meet the press" press pass conversation, and he raised the specter of a challenge, a primary challenge for the president. take a look. >> should there be an anti-war candidate who challenges president obama in 2012? >> i believe it would be healthy if there was a pro-peace candidate, but not just about peace as some airy-fairy notion but an active presence of an u...