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Slaughter on the part of qadhafis troops. hes not known to be a very decent person. so, i see it as a maybe just in time and now we have two other cities, you know, im not good at libyan names, both are in very serious condition. i think we need to try to move to relieve the pressure of qadhafis forces there as well. >> greta: how do we distinguish between libya going there and doing this military action for instance bahrain and yemen? you have similar situations where there are horrible things ...

Disarray. we dont know hot somebody else is. people in congress are -- we dont know who the somebody else is. if congress wants to debate something they should debate placing control of americans in a major military operation under foreign command. is that what we want? a french admiral commanding american troops? >> greta: i dont want to see d4hároops there. not that it is my call. i thought it was unwise to tell -- not the world but to tell qadhafi we werent going to. we are just going to sho...

Root as they have in somalia where theres a similar condition of anarchy. we have not thought that through. >> greta: thank you ambassador. mccain went on the record. it seems that you and secretary of state hillary clinton are on the same page on our military action in libya. and president obama was a little late program. is that a fair assessement? and why are we there? >> from what i heard through the media, i think thats pretty much the case. i think were there because there was very close t...

The next headline and it makes it difficult to ride the roller coaster. >>neil: global events dictate the market. will that be the rule for a while? >>guest: it will be the rule for a long time. the foreseeable future. the two events we are talking about, were unforeseen. we were not thinking libya would fall apart six months ago or for see we have the largest, to hit japan this month. so, those are two events that we did not plan for so there will be more events like that and it seems to me we ...

Reluctance. he wants everybody to know how reluctant he was. the white house keeps broadcasting that. why are they do that? because they want the narrative to change. everything about the character of the intervention shows mr. obamas reluctance. the u.s. commander in the region reporting today u.s. air missions over libya decreased dramatically today. he says the overwhelming number of missions were flown by nonu.s. pilots. u.s. officials going out of their way to point that out. defense secret...

Im hopeful we can bring this all to the surface after 50 years of hypocrisy in the middle east and elsewhere and be honest about the fact everybody wants freedom, we have degrees of corrupt governments to mildly corrupt and violent corrupt governments and we need to reconcile mildly corrupt governments to freedom period. congressman, thank you. robbt you made me feel like dick cavett with you hanging around. coming up, how the political debate here at home is continuing to potentially influence ...

Mile from where im standing in the direction of qadhafis compound. those explosions returned immediately with anti-aircraft fire. coalition forces have knocked out most of the fixed positions of anti-aircraft defenses in libya. some of those mobile guns still very much in operation, firing up from five or six different points. as far as fighting on the ground, there have been gains by the rebels. one week allege it look like they were it of luck. they have regathered now, thanks to support from ...

Objective to protect civilians. between you believed in the humanitarian america the president says we are after the biggest threat to the libyan people is qadhafi. how can you not remove him if you expect to protect the people. >> greta: i didnt understand what the president said. >> i didnt either. >> greta: good. it seems like the president said, i get he wants him to leave. he didnt say he wanted to kill him or remove him or we should do that. so im confused as to why we went in there? numbe...

Calling afghanistan the other war, ultimately iraq it is the war, and the others followed. there have been so many interventions. >> and now libya. >> now libya. and this master narrative, which mr. obama, president obama seems so resistant to. the idea the u.s. is eager to intervene in arab countries. do you see a strong difference between this, the character of this american intervention, and the other ones we just talked about, richard? >> well, i was sort of surprised. in the last several mo...

Just one more time. well do this once more. how dangerous is yemen? how serious should we take the al qaeda rhetoric which is so heated specifically around that country. >> the west has to watch yemen extremely closely. two attacks have been launched from yemen over u.s. soil in the past year and a half. the u.s. state department is waiting to see what happens. what follows, no one really knows. >> if you were to look again at egypt, there seems to be reasonable chance for debate of a modern ada...