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Egyptian strong man hosni mubarak. arab spring would present the president with a defining policy crisis. in march 2011 he addressed the people in washington. the president was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in libya. it was to stop a blood bath in a ported city that most americans had never heard of, a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would have suffered a massacre that would have reverberated across the region. i refuse to let that happen. >> ...

Followed by a popular revolt against mubarak. the arab spring would present the president with a defining foreign policy crisis. in march 2011, he addressed the american people from national defense university in washington. the president who wanted to pivot away from the middle east was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in labia. to stop a bloodbath, in a port city that most americans had never heard of. a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would su...

Especially exposed. so we run through them. they say there are snipers on the road so you have to go from cover to cover. the rebels advance. they reload. they hide behind whatever wall they can find. then they push forward. a rebel leader told us saving misrata today is as urgent as saving benghazi was two weeks ago. >> there is abuse in misrata. they have taken women out of their homes, assassinated people on site, put snipe oerns top of the buildings. mr. obama mentioned yesterday -- >> the r...

The money if we achieve a worthwhile objecty. if the objective turn out to be we have a no-fly zone that lasts for a long time that leaves gadhafi in power. as we had a no-fly zone for a long time that left saddam hussein in power. we are going to regret this. we have to keep our eye on the ball. here the removal of gadhafi from power. >> greta: do you think the president regrets this action after watching the speech tonight or not? do you think he still thinks this is the right thing to do? >> ...

And french were going to move ahead with a security council resolution and we would be standing by watching it happen. he has his chronology wrong. he talked about saving benghazi. but authorized us to support resolution on the use of force before it became clear benghazi was about to fall. in this speech the security council resolution is a self-licking ice cream cone. we need the resolution to authorize the action then we have to undertake the action to uphold the security council resolution. ...

Scenes. i think france sees itself as wanting to own its franchise, for whatever political reasons it has, it wants to maintain a lot more latitude, and i think president obama is perfectly willing to let sarkozy play that role. i do think that we will continue doing -- what theyve been saying is we have unique capacities. those are not just drones and tomahawks. theyre the ability to sin think size and put together very complex systems in ways no other country in the world can. so i think that ...

Doing. i have problems with the the fact that he seems to say hes following the u.n. resolution, and yesterday he set hes going beyond the u.n. resolution, because he want gadhafi out, whereas the u.n. resolutions says its into humanitarian concerns. i think what i need from the president is not off with your head for going into libya. i understand theres some good thats been done already. when the -- when benghazi was rebel-held benghazi was reped, but he does need to do more than send us a her...

Followed by a popular revolt against mubarak. the arab spring would present the president with a defining foreign policy crisis. in march 2011, he addressed the american people from national defense university in washington. the president who wanted to pivot away from the middle east was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in labia. to stop a bloodbath, in a port city that most americans had never heard of. a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would su...

Looked more like a desert rally than a military campaign. rebels in cars speeding away, retreating. with tanks, artillery, and flanking maneuvers, gadhafis troops easily drove the rebels back, far away from gadhafis hometown of sirte. from a safe distance, the rebels fired back, but their weapons range -- >> we need the air force to help us. thats what we need. without them we cant do anything. >> reporter: witnesses say gadhafi is also planting landmines in the desert, making any ground advance...