no tank zone too so he can t use tanks and armored personnel carriers to kill people in the streets. government set up in benghazi set up for orderly transition. qaddafi is going to too lose. we can do a lot to make the civil war less bloody and make the loss much quicker. chris: growing criticism of the president s response. would before we get to the military option os, world leaders were calling for qaddafi to go. only yesterday that in a phone call with german chancellor angela merkel that the president finally said that qaddafi should go. other countries sent warships to evacuate their nationals we sent a ferry. is the criticism legitimate? i think that the criticism is legitimate up to pint. the white house says that the reason why it couldn t come out and call for qaddafi s exit until yesterday is because they were waiting for that ferry load of americans to get out of there. and that they were afraid of a hostage situation they ever
most if not all have. and also, the rebels are now promising that they will fight until the very end. saying for no other reason than they simply want a chance for freedom. one young man at the hospital told me he would take 100 bullets simply for that chance. chris, back to you. chris: leland i have the territory reporting from libya. thanks for that time few nor sunday group. big kristol of the weekly standard, mara liasson of national public radio. former white house press secretary dana perino and fox news political analyst juan williams. so, bill, you heard leland just talk about no surrender. where is libya headed? is this blood bath just going to continue? i hope not and i think we could do more to end this quickly. qaddafi is losing ground. he has lost is the city 30 miles away near tripoli. i think we should move quickly now to enforce a no fly zone. not let qaddafi use what part of his air force is remaining to kill libyans, probably enforce a
you might have thought he was in egypt. give us some time. this is what we are doing. instead they only started doing background three days ago so it does look like they are playing catch up. every president has multiple audiences every time you speak. allies, people at home, your enemies and the people of libya. and think that the people of libya, they do not hear a strong enough american support this week. chris: two questions, juan, what can we do and two, does the president deserve more criticism for what he has failed to do so far. i think bill laid it out pretty well. the key here to me is international cooperation. the united states has a lot of power. we could send ships into the mediterranean to protect those oil resources. that s a growing issue in this country with gas prices spiraling at the moment what we need to do with that we need to protect the oil sources. you want to prevent any kind of genocidal action by qaddafi. i like bill s suggestions very much. i think you
to american military efforts has been off the board? he has gone ballistic and done things that are threat to not only his own people but to middle east stability. if you are the president of the united states, what you are suggesting would have been reckless action that was provocative to qaddafi. you just said is he a reckless sick man. you can t provoke such man. the message he did learn back in the reagan years i think is to be a little scared of the u.s. force. we didn t signal enough force and use enough force in the last week. having said that fine, they were slow. we got the diplomats out. now could we finally help the libyan people end this thing? i think you will see that. chris: you have no problem with the military force, no fly zones tanks in the streets take out the tanks. in conjunction with the united nations. it doesn t have to be the u.s. alone. we don t need to paralyze ourselves waiting for the russians and chinese to agree for it. chris: agree. bring yo
afraid how qaddafi might react. united states should have been better prepared to evacuate its people. they did get them out. the president is working hard at the united nations to get sanctions to enforce the no fly zone. and to work with allies around the world. so i think, yes, things move so fast now the white house might have been behind a bit. but they have caught up. chris: are you as forgiving about this? and, realistically, when you have got a dictator who is willing to fight to the death. what should we do? invade the country and enforce a no fly zone or no tank zone? should we organize a coo. they have more information than all of us. they are in the situation room. they have the intelligence that we don t have 00 our disposal. the white house could have been though, three days ago provided the information that mara just provided us. on background to reporters to you to a few other people to say this is why he is not coming out and saying. this not being as strong as you