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>> one thing i'm concerned about you talked about the president going to the department of defense in the pentagon. we're not talking about a coherent national security strategy. what the president laid out is very dangerous and it really does show incompetence in understanding the national security strategy. he did not talk about how we go forward on the 21st century battlefield. the ability to engage, deter and strike the enemy when necessary. we cannot sit around and say we won't fight a second combat operation. because the enemy has a vote in this. what we need to be able to do is sit down...

>> one thing i'm concerned about you talked about the president going to the department of defense in the pentagon. we're not talking about a coherent national security strategy. what the president laid out is very dangerous and it really does show incompetence in understanding the national security strategy. he did not talk about how we go forward on the 21st century battlefield. the ability to engage, deter and strike the enemy when necessary. we cannot sit around and say we won't fight a second combat operation. because the enemy has a vote in this. what we need to be able to do is sit down...

His child support, this is an operation against known combatants, war team combatants. there's a whole different set of rules. in many of those operations, when those s.e.a.l.s hit the door, they don't ask questions, they start firing. that's just the way those operations are conducted. second of all, i think the reason it got hosed up, as many in the building have said, some of the information -- we have to remember all initial reports about any combat operation are always wrong, the information was turned over to white house officials and the white house determined they were going to be prim...

Taylor's star. in india, cricket fans watch a sunset before the world cup. in moscow, the russian president contemplates a piece of contemporary art. and in england, the conservationist inspects a beetle during a nationwide insect survey. hot shots. a picture is worth a thousand words. enforcing the no fly zone over libya is no laughing matter. many people seem to think the name of the operation is. here's cnn. >> reporter: it dawned on the military to animal it -- >> operation odyssey dawn. >> the mission was being called operation odyssey dawn. >> reporter: thus began an odyssey of insults...

Odyssey dawn? you really name a combat operation after a yes album? >> they are calling it operation odyssey dawn. i believe it is the first military operation named for a stripper. >> odyssey dawn? that's not a military operation! that's a carnival cruise ship! >> last night on this program, i asked you to come up with a better name than operation odyssey dawn. the rules of naming this operation as laid down by the pentagon require that the first word begin with o, the second word must start with a through f. among the best of more than 600 suggestions we received, operation obama biden or ob...