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World, famine, a million people suffering, people drinking filthy water and what i and senator lee and senator murphy have insisted that the time is long overdue for the united states congress to accept its constitutional responsible for war making and not giving that over to the president and thats been the case for many, many years. we brought a resolution to the floor. we got 44 votes which is a good start. if the united states is going to get involved in a war, it should not be the president...

Levin in irvin, california. hes a professor at cal state, san bernardino, and the director of the center for the study of hate and extremism. nice to see you this morning. >> thank you for having me. >> i actually want to start by backing up a little bit and talking first about what we might expect to hear from the president. yesterday i had a guest who was talking about the fact that this form of terrorism cant be fought in quite the same way that we typically think about sort of war making. an...

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Civilians. the uss mt. whitney named after the highest peak will no longer be the place where from which it is run. does that mean they will be doing any less of the war making in libya even if the u.s. military is runing it? answers to those questions are as yet unseen, but heres what president obama promised in an address about libya in washington, d.c. >> to lend perspective on how this response came together, when people were being brutalized in bosnia in the 1990s, it took the international...

Whitney we think is not going to be the headquarters for the libyan war. that war effort will now be run by nato. the no-fly zone part of it and the bombing gadhafis ground troops part of it which they call something like protecting civilians. this ship named after the highest peak in the continental united states will no longer be the place from which the libyan war is run. does that mean american personnel will be doing any less of the war making in libya? and are u.s. taxpayers funding any le...

Intervene, and it wouldnt cost us so much that we would regret having done it. very pragmatic. >> the other elements you talk about being invited to do it in effect by the rebels, having the international coalition. but all of those elements being together, and what he doesnt say specifically but what seems clear to me is we looked at this theater of war and thought we were our equipment could be successful in what were trying to do in this particular place. we may look at a place like somalia a...