for our own oil, use our own resources that we have in the united states? megyn: we say it s not about oil, it s about american ideals of protecting the innocent. this guy is gunning down and slaughtering his own people who have taken to the streets to protest. granted they are rebels. we don t know what kind of a government they want or would bring. it s a principle that america is supposed to stand for. this is how the obama administration and others that defend it are defending this action, not about oil. well, yeah, it is a lot about oil also. but the other side of the coin is if you take that tack then why are we not in yemen, why are we not in bahrain, maybe in saudi arabia, why are we not in other parts of africa? the president of the united states can t pick and choose where he wants to be and where he doesn t want to be. there needs to be a consistent foreign policy. you might ask the question, what is the obama doctrine? and nobody knows. megyn: you re a man who was targete
participating in establishing a no-fly zone. there is going to be a transition taking place in which we are one of the partners, among many who are going to ensure that that snow fly zone is in force and that the humanitarian protection that needs to be provided continues to be in place. with respect to initiating this action while i was a broad, keep in mind that we were working on very short time frames, and we had done all the work and it was just a matter of seeing how qaddhafi would react to the warning that i issued on friday. he, despite words to the contrary was continuing to act aggressively towards his civilians. after consultation with our allies we decided to move forward. and it was a matter of me directing secretary of defense gates and admiral mullen that the plan that had been developed
listen, the rest of the world is looking at the united states for leadership, barack obama can say all he wants we are going to pull back and let other people run this. there is nobody else to run a no-fly zone or a war in the middle east other than the united states of america. there needs to be a clear plan. what hof what he should do. ronald reagan got 20 years of silence out of moammar gadhafi by one fly by in the middle of the night. that is the fly by that caused moammar gadhafi to go on record and put a hit out on me. he made one fly by in the middle of the night and shut moammar gadhafi down for 20 years. maybe, maybe, obama should have looked over his holder and thought to himself, what would reagan do. megyn: moammar gadhafi got in big trouble with ronald reagan when he bombed a nightclub and killed two american service members. ronald reagan came out after that and made clear what he was going to do, who was going to be behind it and who would lead.
first of all, i think it s very easy to square our military actions and our stated policies. our millio military action is in support of an international mandate from the security council that specifically focuses on the humanitarian threat posed by moammar qaddafi to his people. not only was he carrying out murders of civilians, but he threatened more, he said very specifically, we will show no mercy to people who lived in bengazi. in the face of that the international community rallied and said, we have to stop any potential atrocities inside of libya and provided a broad mandate to accomplish that specific task.
give clear direction to his team, megyn. megyn: mike emanuel, thank you. we have quite a dictator on our hands as we deal with moammar gadhafi in libya. ronald reagan once dubbed him the madman of of the middle east. here is what he said 25 years ago. this mad dog of the middle east has a goal of a world revolution, muslim fundamentalist revolution which is targeted on many of his own arab come operate tree ots. where wcompatriots. where we figure in that, maybe it s like climbing mt.~ ever rest, because we are here. megyn: moammar gadhafi once put out a hit on his son michael. he has a very clear perspective of what should happen. he is an author and chairman of