members of the coalition are probably the weakest reed. i am not sure what they're smoking if they think we can back off and something actually gets done. that's puzzling. >> the military power of the other people involved. >> essentially at this point, there are only three options. either we climb down from our goals and let gadhafi come back and take over, which we are probably not going to do, it would be humiliating, devastating, and contrary to why we went in in the first place, or we achieve the initial mission to protect the rebel areas in the eastern part of the country, but not go for regime change. and regime change doesn't occur on its own, in which case we have a set of protracted stalemate. this gets harried over a long period of time. or whether local forces can do it, whether we oral -- or allies