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Companies, the communications backbone that you depend on for your private cell phone is privately owned as well. we are rewriting our response plans to put the private sector in the front, in the front seat to tell us how we can help them. so it is a coordinated effort. you know, you can't just send power crews in right now to fix it. obviously the storm is creating damage. but as it passes it is our job to help local and state governments get the roads open. this is not something where the lights are going to come back on. the lights are going to be off for many days, if not weeks. that's wh...

Foreigner that he seemed to want to hand it off to before. supreme commander of nato is an american. operational commander here is a canadian. all of the intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, communications backbone of the operation will remain american in military sense, i'm very happy with that. unfortunately, it is the political direction that we still don't have from the president. >> greta: ambassador, when this first happened, and i read all the horrible things that gadhafi was threatening to do to his people, as i watched the video from libya it enraged me and i tend to want to do...

Of trying to pass this off to nato because the united states is very unpopular in wars in muslim countries, i got that. are we passing it off to nato or are we still pulling the strings if from behind the scenes? >> well, only if you consider giving it over to nato is like handing it from your right hand to your left hand. president obama may be the own person in the world who doesn't understand that nato is the extension of american military power in europe and the mediterranean. i'm very happy it is nato as opposed to some other miscellaneous unnamed foreigner that he seemed to want to hand ...