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Not in this one. gadhafi is still firmly in control. yet the president and defense secretary robert gates say the goals of the united states mail tear and its coalition partners are in reach. >> it just seems lodge calgary that once we have the air defense system sufficiently suppressed that the level of military activity would decline. >> should it decline, or now that the united states and its allies have taken sides, should they do more to help the anti-gadhafi opposition? back with david gergen and nick burns. david, some would make the moral argument once you have picked sides, before the...

U.n. security council resolution says. and if we have a further reaching objective, how do we get there, and who authorizes it. secondly, we have to bring the american people and the institutions of government together on that, and third, with our allies we have to be together. so press reports say turkey and a nato ally is not approving the use of nato as a control agency. perhaps because turkey has a lot of guest workers in libya, and they're very concerned about the safety of their people in libya if nato authorizes this on the part of their decision. >> let me back up for a moment and talk...

Regime's military command and control capability. and i think we've had some fairly significant effect in that regard. >> general carter hamm also says he sees gadhafi's military forces moving away from benghazi in eastern libya. that's where we find arwa damon. i can imagine many of these opposition leaders you've been speaking with are elated there's some international military intervention here. have you seen any evident of a retreat by gadhafi's forces where you are? >> we moved certainly have, if we go back to what happened over the weekend on saturday. gadhafi's forces were not at the ga...

>> there will s a lot of monday morning quarterbacking going on here. >> the pentagon moved at least one tier 1 special operation team from central europe where they were training to the air base in southern italy. fox is told delta force operators were there but never deployed to benghazi which was 480 miles away. separate security source who was in benghazi and helped with the rescue says they believe libyan attackers were planning an ambush on the american rescuers. >> basic principle here. basic principle is that you don't deploy forces in to harm's way without knowing what is going on. wi...

Happened. >> one of the surprising things i heard today from the united states general, general hamm who was in charge said there was no contact with the opposition military forces. i guess he was saying, we are here to protect the air space, put in place a no-fly zone, not to get actively involved. have you heard from the opposition that they would like to be in direct contact with the u.s. military or coalition forces to coordinate what they are doing with what we are doing? >> yes, i think they would want to be to a certain degree especially so they could feel more secure and have a better ...