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This is a civil war. there's clearly a right and wrong side as far as we're concerned morally and democratically in this. there's no love loss for gadhafi. on the other hand, we don't have any legal principle when people are in a civil war that you're going to go in there and automatically jump in on top of it. that's why these countries of nato are saying what's the need? if you can create a humanitarian need, get a u.n. security council resolution, authorizing action, maybe you can do it. but that need as the professor ajami says, gadhafi is smart. he's going to keep this below the threshold...

Them what he needs to do with them much later. the arguments of nato, they wreak of such cowardice. here is one argument that says we can't do it because there has to be demonstrable need. is this not need in zawiya and elsewhere? there is demonstrable need. and another thing, which i like, which is amazing. again, we must bear in mind says nato the sensitivities of the region. we can't intervene there because people in ramallah would be upset. people in amman would be upset. so we can't rescue libyans. because we must respect the sensitivities of the region as nato defines them. from the regi...

Daily, and they are stating "save us." they are begging us and pleading for us to save them, and my answer is two words -- listen to me, i want those armed groups to listen to me real well, and i want the people in the east to hear this, as well. we are coming. >> white house spokesman jay carney said the administration has already taken and i quote, swift and dramatic actions, and it has when it comes to freezing libyan assets. as to doing what they need urgently, namely a no-fly zone, nato is reviewing options. >> firstly, there must be a -- a -- a demonstratable need. secondly, there must b...