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Somalia is the other other and yemen and so on. there so many different interventions >> and now libya. >> and now libya. with the master narrative that president obama seems so resistant to the idea that the u.s. is eager to intervene in arab countries. do you see a strong difference between the character of this american intervention and the other ones we talked about? >> i was sort of surprised in the last several months touring around the mideast covering the revolts and i woke up one morning and found myself covering an american war in libya. it came out of noplace. i didn't see it coming...

Weekend i am worried we are taking a back seat rather than a leadership role. we used to relish leading the free world. now it is like almost leading the free world is an inconvenience. i think the president caveated this way too much, lk like it is a nuisance. lindsey graham speaking on fox news yesterday. would be republican candidate newt gingrich said president obama's position on libya makes him a, quote, spectator in chief instead of commander in chief. rick santorum saying the french were the first ones out there. he's following the lead. think about the big picture, what the presidenti...

Intervention drags on, and american leadership is not something that can be handed off, something for which there isn't a military substitute, then the president will have paid all the domestic political cost for having done this thing this way, having foregone the chest thumping everybody expects from the president. he will have paid that cost and gotten none of the benefit and america's role in the world changing. those are the stakes. happy birthday, arab league, and good luck. joining us now, ayman mohyeldin, back from months of reporting on the uprising in egypt that frankly and justifiab...

Another hit. if gadhafi stays and this intervention drags on, and american leadership is not something that can be handed off, something for which there isn't a military substitute, then the president will have paid all the domestic political cost for having done this thing this way, having foregone the chest thumping everybody expects from the president. he will have paid that cost and gotten none of the benefit and america's role in the world changing. good luck. joining us now, ayman mohyeldin, back from months of reporting on the uprising in egypt that{ frankly and justifiably made him wor...

Taking the back seat. we used to relish leadinging the free world and now it's like an inconvenience. the president caveated this way too much. almost like a nuisance >> the senator speak of fox news yesterday. would be candidate newt gingrich said they made him a spectator instead of a commander in chief. santorum said the fresh were the first out there and he is following the lead. think about the big picture and about what these presidential candidates in 2008 campaigned on and the legacy of george w. bush. do you want the narrative of america's role in the world to be america leads western...