supporting the rebels and using our strike aircraft and then pulling back when qaddafi is on the ropes so that he can kill cree take back create a the country an cuptry and creaa stalemate. that is not the right thing to do. they in need to win. >> it. >> i think they isolated qaddafi and embargoed his oil and frozen his finances and put an international coalition in place to cut off arms supplies going to qaddafi. but it is just something that takes time. you can't do it in an instant and i think the united states government has to be responsive to the idea that all of the problems that were set up before by ill gotten military adventurers. >> chris: i'm going to talk about one other subject in the panel and that is the situation in afghanistan where there have been riots for several days now. a terrible situation on friday where a riot they ended up shooting and killing seven u.n.