made for kind of a multilateral no-fly zone that the united states wouldn t feel like it had to go it alone. so i suspect they ve been just waiting to see what gadhafi s next move is before they make another move. well, the interesting thing, and i ll pose this to you, ed, i also want wolf to weigh in if we have enough time, the conventional wisdom seems to be that moammar gadhafi won t go anywhere, and if he does, the question is how many people will he take out before he goes down? wolf first and then ed. well, absolutely. my sense is he s not going anywhere. he s going to fight till the finish. he wants to die as a mart irin libya, if necessary. he s going to stay put. he s not going to accept some sort of asylum in a third country, whether zaire or any place else. i suspect he s going to stay put exactly where he is. they re concerned as we said about bloodshed. go ahead. well, absolutely. i think gloria makes a great point which is that it s clear from what both wolf and
the magnitude of his crime. the fda has ordered more than 500 different drugs off the market citing possible safety concerns including over the counter cough, cold and allergy meds. the problem? many haven t been evaluated by the agency. the agency is giving most companies making or selling unapproved products 90 days to stop making them and 180 days to stop shipping. president obama speaks out on the revolt against libyan leader moammar gadhafi and announces steps to help those fleeing libya. details straight ahead.
making. so my expectation and hope is that they will resolve it without me intervening because it turns out i ve got a lot of other stuff to do. with respect to libya. i think you asked about, do i have a doctrine. my approach throughout the convulsions and the sweat through the middle east is, number one, no violence against citizens. number two, that we stand for freedom, and democracy. and in the situation in libya, what you ve seen is number one, violence against citizens. and the active urging of violence against unarmed citizens by gadhafi. and number two, you have seen great clarity that he has lost legitimacy with his people.
are reporting about defense secretary gates comments for example, there s real reluctance to use the military option. whether this continues much longer and becomes more and more of a humanitarian crisis, moammar gadhafi may make this decision for the u.s. and its allies because we ve got to underline that. this is highly unlikely to be a u.s.-only action. it s going to be in concert with nato, as wolf pointed out. maybe before the u.n. security council. they re going to be very careful to work with allies on this. but the decision may be made for them ultimately, if this humanitarian crisis deepens, and gadhafi just digs in more, at some point the world is going to demand that the u.s. and its allies act militarily, even if that s not their first option today. but as this goes on longer and longer, and we ve seen the sanctions against libya, and people saying hey, the president said they ll do anything within their power to stop him from killing his own people, but yet and still pe
that is one possibility. yeah, he s considering a full range of military options. he didn t outline what those options in libya, per se, are. he didn t say he would go forward with a no-fly zone which in effect means air strikes first to knock out the libyan air defense capabilities, the radar systems, anti-aircraft guns and all of that. he said he s reviewing all those options. he wasn t asked about arming the opposition, the opponents of moammar gadhafi s regime. so he didn t get into that, although they re considering a wide range of options. on the use of u.s. military force, did he say he was going to let u.s. military aircraft go into tunisia next door to libya where tens of thousands of refugees, mostly egyptian refugees have now crowded into camps along the border to try to get them back to egypt. raises the question what about the egyptian air force, why aren t egyptian planes being used to move the sizs back to