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Does that make sense to you? >> yeah, and i don't doubt that they tried to do everything they could, but he hit the nail on the head, time and distance, which begs the question, who made the decision not to have our ac130s closer, our f-16s closer. i think he does make a point that they can't always be there exactly when needed. however, the other command decision that secretary clinton made was why did we put someone into a situation like this without adequate military protection? i never would have had an embassy and still would not have an embassy in libya unless it were under the complete ...

I realize war is different? >> you have to think of the context of the local commander. if they want to open a road. >> greta: what do you mean by open the road? >> he gets a.m. burned and he is getting tired of it. he goes to the village chief you are in charge of the road. i want you to back off. he says, okay i'll do it but you have to let mohammad go. its toss-up you get more americans killed by being ambushed on the road. its command decision and sometimes its tough decision but it's th is an unusual war and sometimes you have to make compromises on the ground. >> greta: apparently the ex...

I realize war is different? >> you have to think of the context of the local commander. if they want to open a road. >> greta: what do you mean by open the road? >> he gets a.m. burned and he is getting tired of it. he goes to the village chief you are in charge of the road. i want you to back off. he says, okay i'll do it but you have to let mohammad go. its toss-up you get more americans killed by being ambushed on the road. its command decision and sometimes its tough decision but it's th is an unusual war and sometimes you have to make compromises on the ground. >> greta: apparently the ex...

For weeks and maybe the first officer had been feeling really uncomfortable with this person. but either way, i mean, for the first officer to take this kind of action is absolutely unprecedented. i've never heard of a case like this before. but the first officer really took a risk for his job to do this, because if he had been wrong, i mean, it would have probably cost him his job. megyn: it could be a career ending decision. it could have an life or death decision that he made for you,o but for you paul and the people on your flight and i know you believe the copilot deserves a lot of credit...

That. >> if you say he's got to go, and the gang out there in benghazi can't do it quite obviously, even with american air force, then you've got to say, look, in the last analysis if we have to do a northern alliance with americans going in there and throwing him out, that's what we've got to do because he cannot survive. but you've got to make the command decision and then everything falls into place. >> this is what too many times american leaders do, they stumble into a war like this. where we now put ourselves into a position where gadhafi can't survive but who replaces gadhafi? we don't ...