to protect the civilians. that's the united states security council. the u.s. goal, as the president repeatedly has said, it is to get rid of gadhafi once and for all. that's what the u.s. objective has been, is, and we'll see if they're able to achieve that objective anytime soon. >> but that's very different from the goal of the u.n. resoluti resolution, which sort of creates a problem. >> right. >> he raeld a consensus, the arab league, ten members of the united nations security council voted for it, five abtained, including russia and china, but there is a difference between what the u.n. has thor authorized, what the military is directly charged with doing, and what the president of the united states for weeks has now said is the u.s. policy, what the secretary of state hillary clinton as recently as yesterday said is the u.s. policy, which is libya without gadhafi. so how do you achieve that?