they were engaged in another war. i think it was done in such a way as to not harm our presence in the middle east. it is not clear the concept of leading from behind is a policy or whether it was just a practice it was applied in this case. you have to ask the question, when it comes to syria are we leading from behind are we leading at all similarly with iran. it doesn t appear that the effort to keep iran from getting a nuclear weapon is succeeding except by virtue of their own technical stumbles and whatever efforts are being made to mess their computer stimss ystems up their arms system their nuclear program. i think there s a lot to be seen. we are out of time. let me ask you real quickly, britt, you hear all of the stuff we should have an investigation, war crimes the killing of qaddafi, are you offended by the way qaddafi ended? looks like they captured him
though. are you suggesting we would be better off with qaddafi s dictatorship still in effect? the world certainly is better off abo without qaddafi. i agree with lindsay graham but consider what the cost will be. we are only looking at a snapshot today. the last chapter hasn t been written in on libya. again we have to recognize they are missing today chemical weapons the shoulder fired missile launchers. this is very serious. this could risk more human life because they are missing and we also don t know who the next regime will be that will be taking over libya. we knew who the devil was that was running we don t know the next one. again this was leading from behind on the part of the administration and remember there was no clearly identifiable american vital interest that was ever designated. that needs to be our basis for putting any american in harm s
nomination all right now on fox news live. hello again from fox news in washington. on friday president obama announced he will keep a campaign promise and bring all u.s. troops ohome from iraq by the end of the year. earlier we spoke with secretary of state hillary clinton in uzbekistan about iraq and the death of ousted libyan leader moammar qaddafi. secretary clinton the u.s. commander in iraq general lloyd a austin wanted upwards of 55,000 troops in iraq last year. they talked about 3-5,000. why is president obama pulling all of our troops out? oo evening we should put this into the appropriate historical context. president obama said combat troops would leigh by the e leave by the end of the year. before that the bush administration committed to
i would argue that iraq and afghanistan is being run out of chicago, not, washington, in terms of decisions. chris: what about the argument that in the last six months bin laden is gone, awlaki is gone and now qaddafi is gone. well done, mr. president, using the drones in yemen and pastan. well done, mr. president. not be take close the deal in iraq is a serious mistake. celebrating leaving with no troops behind is a serious mistake. panetta said on a scale of one to ten chris: the defense secretary. ashton carter said it was a 10. when it comes to afghanistan he rejected the military advice given. there was never an option on the table to pull out the surge forces out. he compromised the fighting season and mate general allen s
the ntc, he was saying yesterday in that major speech as they announced the liberation, that sharia law will be the basis of all law, but this is a very religious country already. there s no nightclubs here, bars, and alcohol has been banned since qaddafi took power, and when you walk around the streets, most people, most women, are wearing scarves, very few actually covering their face in total, but when you walk around, you understand that it is a very religious country. qaddafi introduced some reforms, but he also pushed sharia law, but he was very strict in some ways, which we don t know if they were introduced, for instance, armed robbery, he was including amputations if there were serious crimes here, but it s really the interpretation here. but it will give encouragement to islamists in this country who are a growing force. and as we ve seen in neighboring tunisia, people