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On what colonel gadhafi does next. we have some signals that if perhaps he pulls back or he changes his posture that the coalition posture could change as well. one official said that has to be looked at carefully. simply stopping advancing into benghazi might not be enough. he could be repositions his forces at a later date. they would want to see something stronger from colonel gadhafi indicating he was going to pull back his forces or prepare to standdown. one official that i spoke with says so far, they have not seen any indication of that. >> all right. thank you so much chris lawrence. d...

France is shouldering its role in history. thank you. >> there are more points of view coming out of paris. we will get to our state department correspondent jill dougherty in a moment. meantime, i'll let you get back to northeastern libya. we have arwa damon there. what kind of activity are you seeing where you are? >> reporter: fredricka, in the city of benghazi is where we saw the assault earlier today. so far, it seems the opposition does manage to obtain control of the city. it does appear the opposition did manage to drive out colonel gadhafi's advancing tanks and military units. one eye...

Forces. if there's a regional command and control center, maybe you'd strike that first if you could isolate, and we probably know this, who is controlling the forces that are moving toward benghazi. maybe as a warning we run that up first. it's clear that given the way that the u.n. security council resolution was written and secretary clinton's comments that this is an effort to keep the door open and give gadhafi a chance to back out, rather than calling for his unconditional surrender. but he's only got limited time to respond to this. i think the patience of the coalition is going to be l...

They too would become a target. the official says once that is done, once they open up an environment in which a no-fly zone could be performed, you'll see the no-fly zone enforced in a limited part of the country. it's only going to be in that northern part of libya from east to west, primarily to the west of tripoli and, obviously, to the east of benghazi. most of the flights are going to take place over libyan airspace in the area around tripoli and also in the mediterranean sea in the area around benghazi. the official says the coalition basically has two goals. one is to prevent further a...

That authorizes the use of force in order to rappel any effort by the libyan regime to attack benghazi, the rebels' last stronghold. a lot of it is couched in language, protection of civilians, but it gives sweeping authority to place itself in between the two forces and to essentially save the rebels from defeat. >> this is so much like korea, where we went into korea under u.n. sanction, and we went to save the south koreans at pousson, at the very bottom of the peninsula, and then later, of course, mcarthur became famous for the much more dramatic effort to win the war. is that what this lo...