for the potential of a wider civil war because it's not going to be a quick, easy battle, even when you've armed the rebels. steps such as announced from the pentagon yesterday about using drone aircraft, these can be partial game changers on the battlefield, particularly around misratah where there's a siege going on right now but arming the rebels is not going to bring a quick victory and potentially another very protracted bloody fight. >> admiral mike mullen now says that he believes there could be a stalemate inside libya. does it look like to you whether it is on the ground or the leaders that are involved in this international community, that that is acceptable now, that we might just see a libya split into two? two different states. >> i don't think anyone wants that or can even sort of have -- can allow that to happen because the potential for destruction in libya, the potential loss of the sort of oil assets there for an extended period of time, almost 1 1/2 million barrels of oil a day, this is a significant