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Destabilized the governments, we might have a little room to do what they feel they need to do for their security as unpleasant it is. >> the lesson they are drawing is if you are a friend to the united states as in egypt or tunisia, you fall. if you are an enemy of the united states such as iran or libya, you survive as long as you are ruthless enough in putting down unrest. >> i think it is exactly right. th is an disiement of the -- an indictment of the leadership. the other important issue i...

President said something. they do not want to touch anything continuersial right now. >> okay. libya is not the only place influence is lacking. trouble expands to the gulf with saudi arabia spurning requests to stay out of bahrain. what their intervention says about the threat there and what it signals about americas new place in the world.

Set about the way libya and some of the other issues are being handled. that is a clear sign that the media will pick up on that. as they are going to pick up on his trip to rio with michelle and the girls going on a field trip and him spending a few hours there supposedly promoting the american jobs. you are starting on to see this -- you are starting to see this disbelief. >> at the same time there is a host, a herd of republican candidates, none of whom the american public would feel comforta...

If people like the saudis or the iranians or the chinese conclude that the united states has got all of its weapons holstered they are going to start moving forward on their own. you are putting a lot of dangerous forces in motion. >> does this mean this era of spring we have been following could be ending? >> the turn around iny vebts have turned around more. people are seeing the americans in the west will come in on our side. so it increases the uncertainty, but it increases the potential for...

Same thing. they always feel bad about losing when the president picks them. they will go all the way. >> president obama earlier this week making his picks for the ncaa tournament. allen, you heard the conservative. how dare he during a time of war? >> well, you have an earthquake and tsunami. >> oh my gosh, and he did ncaa picks? how dare he neglect his office as president to spend five or 10 minutes picking the ncaa teams? how dare he? >> people in libya were getting bomb -- bombarded by thei...

At long last the u.n security council on thursday approved a resolution authorizing military intervention in libya. the vote and u.s. support for the measure came weeks after president obama first declared that libyan strong man muammar qaddafi must go. we are back. we have dan and kim and joining us is board member matt kaminski. is it too late, matt? >> they really cut it choose. troops are about a hundred kilometers and they waited until the absolute last minute. it wasnt in thanks to the u.s...

>> i agree with dan about the ideology that is pushing this. it is over hung by a political calculation. but this administration is petrified of being compared to the bush administration, the warmongers and the bush administration. they look and they have many on the professional level who are howling that obama might take them to another war. they are worried that the public doesnt have appetite for any military conflict. this is a white house that is focused on 2012. they want to ep could the ...

The president already said qaddafi has to go. and now the u.n says we will try to give you the means, short of ground troops. it will have to be air, but we can do that. will we let a stalemate happen? can we afford to let a stalemate happen? >> basically what you would be talking about is a partition libya where the rebels hold the east and qaddafi gets the west. it would give qaddafi access to oil revenue. if he gets the revenue he will behave in a very bad way. we have gotten to the point whe...

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Say it is a cease-fire. lets talk. you may have a divided and very messy libya. >> what do you think changed the dynamics, dan? why did the u.n finally decide to move? >> they finally decided to move because as one of the rebel commanders said, the blood of the international community is on their hands. they were sitting there ready to die. they were ready to get hammered. i think the international community finally said, it has gone too far and we have to do something. people are sitting in the...