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Back from washington. >> reporter: it is almost 25 years since ronald reagan called muammar qaddafi the mad dog of the middle east and that gives you a good idea of what things have been like in that country, for all of this time and, even beforehand. it was 1981. when he laid claim to a big chunk of the gulf of sidra, an american f-14, ended up having to shoot down two libyan fighter jets in self-defense. five years later, our 6th fleet sailed over the imaginary line in the same gulf of sidra. muammar qaddafi called the line of death and when challenged, our navy ended up sinking two of their...

Whether that is directed at targets and there are times we are hearing anti-aircraft fire and people honking their horns and the message we are getting from the qaddafi leadership is one of defiance, the colonel a short time ago, voice-only, no picture of him, unusually, appeared on state television and used all of the buzzwords and said this is an attack by colonialists on libya and attack by zionists and by crusaders against libya and also said he'd open up his arms depots, and pass out arms to the people to help them fight and state television is making claims unverified, civilians were kil...

Our participation escalated? >> i think it is how you measure the level of participation. the kinetic impact of the cruise missiles should not be underestimated but what you will see, i think is the visible presence of france, u.k. and others, we talked about the united arab emirates and qatar in terms of their air support and very much of a powerful impact in dstriking key command and control targets within libya and the flag you'll see in terms of the enforcements of the know fly zone will not be the u.s. out front. >> jamie: and it is a process to enforce a no-fly zone which is what the u.n...

You hearing anything, mike, about how long the u.s. involvement will go in all of this? >> reporter: reading between the lines, and talking with key advisors, the sense you get is we'll use our military might up front and essentially bomb the heck out of a lot of key strategic targets in libya and the hope is the coalition allies will take over, perhaps some in the arab world, friendly nations in the arab world, also our european allies, but, all indications are while they don't want to give a timeline for how long we'll be there, they are hoping to really blast a lot of key targets and hopefu...

The only thing i have seen that he is for, right now, is for israel to stop building more settlements and i don't know what his policy is, do you? can you define it? >> rick: is that a fair point. >> no, the fact is john kerry was the first one out there, saying no-fly zone in libya and i didn't see the republicans saying that, and they were hiding somewhere else. and he went out there, first, hillary clinton followed and now, barack obama has an international coalition doing exactly that thing, and that is the smart way to do it, take the time to do it right. instead of going off, half cocked...