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Solar, wind, natural gas. we need to reduce our dependency on opec, fossil fuels. in that message i do agree with you. >> the president was keen today to say weve learned lessons from iraq, we wont be committing ground troops. what happens if gadhafi manages not just to hang on, but hang on quite strongly and is going nowhere, and begins attacking his people again, to exact bloody revenge? at what point does america feel compelled to send in ground troops, on the same humanitarian pretext they l...

Here and the administration is trying to create the pretext that it is supporting a no-fly zone, under the surface we are really in for a dollar because in the end sit a no drive zone rather than a no-fly zone that will really matter here. >> do you think that there is any and a safe place. >> i dont think there is that much loyalty to gadhafi. after all, they have defected to the opposition that is now battling him. i think there is every man for himself and people are looking at what now is ta...

Your skin in the game. we need you alongside with us. theres been a lint of consternation that those arab states that said they would support a no-fly zone which cave the contempt and the pretext for this resolution at the u.p. u.n. havent been really joining the coalition. weigh see qatar taking -- making some measures but a lot of arab states want to see others an dont want to be the first one. so the u.s. really looking for more arab states and want to avoid that this this is anything like ir...

Bahrain. >> you seem to be very flexible. did we get congressional approval to go into grenada? >> that was clear and present danger. if jack kennedy had struck the missiles in cuba, he had a right to do that, because theres an imminent danger. >> he just didnt want to see -- that was a great pretext. >> why were those kids getting off the plane kissing the ground? >> because mike dever organized a brilliant public relations stunt. thank you, pat. you know how great that pr was. thank you. i you...

Keeps ghadafi from using his aircraft, but he can still use his land forces with some impunity. jon: we know that moammar ghadafi orded the bombing of that german discotheque that killed a couple of american servicemen, we know he ordered the bombing of pan-am flight 103. might he resort to more of that kind of terrorism in the days ahead? >> he might. and he actually said the other day he might attack civil aviation in one of his interviews and that there would be a price to pay, in other words...

Message that -- >> bahrain. >> you seem to be very flexible. did we get congressional approval to get into grenada. >> that was clear and present danger. john kennedy had a right to do that. theres an imminent danger. >> he just didnt want to see -- that was a great pretext. >> why were those kids getting off the plane kissing the ground? >> because mike dever organized a great public relations stunt. you know how great that pr was. thank you. i you know won that one. pat buchanan who defends so...

Down the toilets when the marines got there. >> yes or no? >> 500 kids. >> yes or no, right now theres a movement towards democracy in the middle east that weve never seen before. yes or no we need to send a message that -- to the people on the ground -- >> tell it to the people in bahrain. >> you seem to be very flexible. did we get congressional approval to go into grenada? >> that was clear and present danger. if jack kennedy had struck the missiles in cuba, he had a right to do that, because...

Revenge. now, it does not make a last sense to do something right now pause that would create a pretext to force governments to take him out so my guess is he will want to survive and come back another day. now, the point you have to ask: well, just go in and finish this, but we are not prepared to go in and finish this great a -- this from a perspective of a vacuum that will have to be filled. that may not make sense. there are ways to guard ourselves again a future muammar qaddafi threat and t...

The rebel movement who have credibility and standing up in benghazi and then looking at perhaps some of the people who were involved historically in the development of libyas political system but its going to be very, very difficult for one person to emerge as sort of a savior. >> do you think theres anything the international coalition can do to encourage gadhafi to leave or to force him out or are they doing it right now? >> i think theyre doing some of it now. the question is how does gadhafi...

Appears, the gadhafi attack, appears to have now begun against benghazi. >> the cease-fire was a very canny move by gadhafi because it put the ball straight back in the court of the international community. and in paris, there were divisions between say, france and britain and the gulf states who may have been more cautious. now he has given them the perfect pretext to degrade this forces. >> but did anybody believe the cease-fire? bearing in mind, no matter what the deputy foreign minister may ...