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Why did we get involved in the internal struggles of a nation some 4,000 miles away. on "fox news sunday" the republican senator john mccain said it was a humanitarian imperative. >> qaddafi forces were on the outskirts of benghazi. he said himself he would go house to house and kill and murder people. >> shepard: who knows whether it all would have ended with benghazi. >> i mean, if we were sitting here and benghazi had been taken and tens of thousands of people had been slaughtered and hundreds of thousands had fled, some of them over the border to egypt, destabilizing egypt during its parti...

Administration was in the white house about what happened if they did not take action. here is secretary clinton on that issue. >>guest: if we were sitting here and benghazi was taken, and tens of thousands of people had been slaughtered and hundreds of thousands had fled, some over the border to egypt, destabilizing egypt during its particularly delicate transition, we would be sitting here and people in the congress and elsewhere, would be saying, why didn't we do something? >> secretary clinton and her counterpart made their case about the reasons for action in libya and why libya could be ...

What they did. the united states and other countries were in a position to enforce it. if you look at the coverage on al jazeera, listen to the statements in the opposition in libya, there is a great deal of appreciation for what we and others have done in order to stop gadhafi on his mission of merciless oppression. so this was an international effort that the united states was a part of. i certainly believe it was within the president's constitutional authority to do so. it is going according to the plan that the president laid out. the united states will be transitioning to a nato command a...

Suppressed, what it takes to sustain the no-fly zone is substantially legislation than what it takes to establish it. >> secretary clinton pushed back against allegations that the president violated the constitution by failing to seek congressional approval for the intervention. >> this was an international effort that the united states was a part of. i certainly believe it was within the president's constitutional authority to do so. if you look at the region, can you imagine, david, if we were sitting here and gadhafi had gotten to benghazi and in a city of 700,000 people had massacred tens ...

Mission partly accomplished. defense secretary robert gates says the u.s.-led effort to enforce a no-fly zone in libya has rendered moammar gadhafi's forces defenseless. in an appearance on "meet the press" secretary of state hillary clinton defended the military action. >> this was an international effort that the united states was a part of. i certainly believe it was within the president's constitutional authority to do so. it is going according to the plan that the president laid out. the united states will be transitioning to a nato command and control. and then we will be joining with th...