and it is our military that is being volunteered by others to carry out missions that are important not only to us, but are important internationally. and we will accomplish that in a relatively short period of time. >> let's talk about what we just heard from the president of the united states, gloria borger, our senior political analyst is here. you wrote a piece on cnn.com, gloria, and you suggest there's something unsettling about this military operation. in libya. what's unsettling? >> well, i think first of all war is obviously unsettling, wolf. but even people who believe, as i did,that the president did the right thing in forming a coalition, what's clear now is we have to live with an awful lot of ambiguity here. in order for the president to get this coalition he had to agree to kind of a humanitarian