on the side of gadhafi. >> i think we've got to be ready for a longer battle to get him out of there. but it could go more quickly. because his troops could lose their confidence and abandon him. >> and i am confident in the military capabilities that we have as well as other capabilities. for example, jamming his communications. for example, get in some much needed weapons, getting some people trained. getting some people trained. there's a lot of things we can do beside just the air power component of it. so i have great confidence in our capabilities, the most mightiest nation in the world is now matched up against a third rate or fourth rate power. >> let me ask you a bottom line question here. there are so many people from libya, reporters included who said, he just needed a -- he was just ready to go. and then there was this two-week delay while we waited for the u.n. to do something.