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Air strikes that were ordered in libya where you had an opposition that had a headquarters in benghazi and could march on tripoli because the regime was disintegrated? >> let me respond to that question. you're asking me what i would have done. hillary clinton, in tunis last week, said there's not much we can do. our hands are tied because we can't get support from the u.n. security council. so she's basically saying we're observers until the security council blesses any action. by the way, is the exact opposite position her husband took in the balkans. if things didn't work in the u.n., the u...

Apart. and remember, at the moment, marching on benghazi, the syrian regime, unfortunately, is not falling apart. there's a whole apparatus there. there's a whole geopolitical context in which yes, you've got iran to deal with when you're dealing with syria, and we have other issues with iran. we don't necessarily want to blunder into a conflict that we don't want while at the same time we're trying to remain focused on the iranian nuclear threat and the iranian terrorist threat throughout the world. there are very complicated considerations here that were not there in the case of libya. >> fo...

But i have faith that strategy is going to work over a period of months. >> you don't, admiral sestak? >> no. tom's words are concerning to me where he says this is the beginning. the beginning to what? i mean, gadhafi you expressed it well. until recently he was on the terrorist list. now imagine what he's going to do if he does remain there? look, i am arguing about things that can happen. this was successful for tom's objective which i would like no one to have these atrocities hoisted upon them by gadhafi. but now to what end? how can we really believe that the united states is going to be...

Marching on benghazi has been pretty nearly defeated. the people in eastern libya are now going to be safe. and imagine what we would be talking about right now if president obama hadn't done this? with the support as you mentioned of the united nations and most of the world. not only would we have a blood bath but also a message sent to dictators all around the world that gadhafi's approach for dealing with these political protests through violence and brutality works. finally we would still be embroiled in libya. gadhafi would still be threatening terrorism. we would still have the sanctions...