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Change is absolutely necessary. the president is sneaking up on all this, but it would be much better to have a policy in advance. there's no question the events in egypt, the events in libya now caught the president by surprise, to say that he has a policy, even like an obama doctrine is really just afforden on obama. here's the doctrine, if france wants us to do it, if the u.n. wants us to do it, if the arab league wants us to do it, then we'll do it. that's the obama doctrine. coming up, president obama arguing his case for the mission in libya. did he accomplish his own mission? did he c...

Civilians getting killed. but it's up to them to dictate that they want change. we cannot -- what we're doing in libya is in fact making sure that we preserve a civilian population that's protected and to prevent a viable alternative to gadhafi. >> there are many in london after the economic meltdown who will in their view say we squandered billions in iraq and afghanistan and possibly more billions here, at what point does america stop meddling in international affairs and look after it's own backyard? >> in fact as secretary clinton and secretary gates said yes, the middle east is in fact of...

Gadhafi was terrible in the past, gadhafi stopped supporting terrorism, now he's doing terrible things. his father was a person who slaughtered people. it is more in our national interest to seek a regime change in syria than this is in libya, in america's interest and israel's interest. the supreme regime change would be of the extreme commanders in iran. that's really where our national interest is located and the president is not in favor of regime change the iran, but he's in favor of regime change in libya. he wants to talk to iran. >> any expert in this region will tell you that iran is ...

You shaking your head furiously at what donald trump was saying. >> i was shaking my head at you as well. back to back questions, at once it was how come we're not getting support from the rest of the country. part of being a coalition like nato, a country like the united states you have to put together coalitions so you're not doing all the heavy lifting. it's sheer folly to believe that the international oil supply is not a fungible thing. if you think it doesn't impact u.s. economy, it does, but that's not why the president said we were going in, he said because we're a country that doesn't...

>> but ambassador, let me interrupt you there, in egypt for example, the president was very keen to say we do not get involve in internal revolutions like this. it's down to the people of egypt and what they want. here in libya, he decided to go a different way and engage in military action to help what is effectively a similar kind of revolution, it's people who want to get rid of a dictatorial leader. there seems to be a little bit of hypocrisy here in the way that the american leadership is dealing with this. >> in egypt and tunisia, the government they never used that kind of force and the...