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Done. i think that is what happened here not the president leading. >> greta: i look at it both ways. i found it very curious that the president would do things, tell gadhafi no boots on the ground. and say we are not going for regime change. we you tell your enemy that, all the enemy has to do is find a butcher and get a lot of food and wait. [ talking over each other ] what? >> at the he said he was for gadhafi leaving. then when he committed military forces he was not for gadhafi leaving.q+ confused -- again, detached, disinterested is what the perception was. certainly, the policy was not ...

I think that is what happened here not the president leading. >> greta: i look at it both ways. i found it very curious that the president would do things, tell gadhafi no boots on the ground. and say we are not going for regime change. we you tell your enemy that, all the enemy has to do is find a butcher and get a lot of food and wait. [ talking over each other ] what? >> at the he said he was for gadhafi leaving. then when he committed military forces he was not for gadhafi leaving.q+ confused -- again, detached, disinterested is what the perception was. certainly, the policy was not co-hre...

Washington. take a listen. >> there are persistent rumors that gadhafi really has very few friends, and it's likely that at some point they will crack and he will either leave, be killed, whatever. is that something that you think is a pretty good possibility, that may happen? >> as i look at the situation in libya, senator, you can see a wide range of possibilities out ahead of us that run from a static stalemate to what you just described, gadhafi cracking. i think that if we work all the elements of power, i think we have a chance at a more than reasonable chance of gadhafi leaving. because...

Your eye on what's going on on the ground and continue to do that. because it was startling to see what's happened in the last 48 hours. it's very clear, i think it's becoming increasingly clear that the rebels can't win, can't knock gadhafi out without the firm military support all the way on an offensive going to tripoli. and knocking the regime out, something the president last night said would be a mistake. >> we will keep our eye on the ground and we're blessed of great reporters, and blessed of davidg dav dav david gergen for these great insights. next, is it a mixed message or right mes...

And this is a situation, it is on the fly, it's being put together. it could work. it's going to take a lot of work behind the scenes with allies, arabs and the libyan opposition to pull this off and there are limits apparently to what the military is going to be enabled to do. so that means there's got to be other means employed to get the desired outcome. it could work. but it's not a conventional way of going at it. >> ann marie, it does seem what we're looking for is a political solution to this, meaning a political outcome, gadhafi leaving or being taken out. is a military -- is the milit...