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Anderson, it has and we basically saw the opposition moving forward fairly easily thanks to those air strikes in the area. but then today he began to hit the tribal pro gadhafi areas and that is where they're running into an entirely different dynamic. one small town they went into which is around 60 miles to the east of gadhafi's hometown, opposition fighters were driven out of there by armed residents. they say that these residents were armed by gadhafi himself, but they went in to search these homes and then they were fired on. as they began their withdrawal, their retreat because they clai...

To be very careful about this. what the opposition would like to see is, they would like to see the coalition tighten the noose on gadhafi. they'll find a way to bypass and get to misrata. they'll try to put their coalition where they don't have to act against the bulk of gadhafi forces. >> i want to bring something else down, you were the nato supreme allied commander, when you look at a map like this, you have the operation centers that are set up in it taaly and set here and there. the united states steps back, yes it uses some capabilities to help and support r you now confident there's a ...

No bombings are to take place in civilian areas which is why and when this battle does move to this type of street to street fight that we could potentially be seeing, there's not going to be much room for those air strikes to take place. that's where the opposition is going to have to figure out some sort of a military strategy, so they can in fact if they intend to defeat gadhafi's military, defeat those other civilians that rise up to fight. it has to realize that it lacks the weapons, it lacks the experience and it lacks the military expertise. they do not understand or enforce the basics ...

Pilots and syrian tank commanders. i can't verify this, but this is what you're hearing there. so the purpose of the opposition supported by the coalition is to create an inevitability, that causes people to talk rather than fight. >> we'll continue this conversation a little bit later in the program. back to wolf. >> thanks very much guys, when we come back, our own eliot spitzer is going to be speaking with fareed zack kkaria, he's g his views on the president's speech. more of our coverage on the president's address to the nation after this.

Commands structure and the nato command structure and as the president said we'll continue to provide command and control and intelligence and other things. all of the backbone of this, and it's really about putting an allied chain of command through nato so that you bring other political leadership in and others have to take responsibility for the actions. yes, we'll still be engaged here and i'm not concerned about the technicalities of command and control, i am concerned about the issues you're raising. but to go back to this, john, what the president said is, there's a certain line at whic...