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Would we be spending that kind of money. >> the middle east is a strategically very important part of the world heavily because of oil. look, in the clinton administration where i served we went to war from the air twice and he didn't have a drop of oil. we did it to save bosnians and kosovo. the you have has intervened in a number of circumstances in modern history. i think the main reason the president overcame his reluctance, which was quite obvious, and went into this situation in -- against gadhafi is gadhafi's explicit threats to massacre people. i mean that was about as vivid as you get...

Are in uncharted territory here. basically we've been in uncharted territory in a whole lot of things since 2008, whether it comes to the economy or what's happening in the middle east. i don't think that anyone who has watched the middle east, any of the experts, and i am by no means a middle east expert. if you were to go to a middle east expert a year ago and say would you -- would mubarak disappear, would gadhafi be hanging on by his finger nails, would the leader in tunisia have fled, would there be riots in syria, they would -- all at the same time, they would all say not a chance, not a...

Very well orchestrated leak of this news of cia operatives in libya is how details the information is. reading the story i thought that clearly there were two audiences for this story. one, the american people and the allies about what's going on, and two, to gadhafi himself basically saying we've got our eyes on you, you don't know who we are or where we're going to be but we're coming for you, and maybe it will allow for other people to leave gadhafi's ranks and, therefore, really hasten the crumbling his hold on power in libya. >> do you share that analysis? >> well, i'm shocked that the ci...

This war until its end. it is not a france problem. i heard the gentleman before me make a difference between american interest and french interest. this is not correct. we have the same interests. gadhafi was and would still be a danger for the free world. gadhafi is -- >> i understand that. i guess my question is simply from an american perspective is we have nearly 20% unemployment. we have a housing crisis. we have a ten-year war in afghanistan. we have a failed war in iraq. we spend 43% of the national defense budget. we have the world's ultimate war and killing machine. we just dropped a...

Two. i do think that gadhafi is -- predicting his behavior over the last four years has been a failed endeavor. but i think the united states needs to be aware that if gadhafi does survive, he will look at ways to retaliate against thoughs that teamed up against him. it doesn't mean that he doesn't have the capability to do so. we just need to be prepared to deal with them in that kind of scenario. >> so without the possibility that he would team up with them to coordinate an attack? >> libya has been peripheral and there was a fighting group that aligned himself and then ultimately lost in th...