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I'm concerned about making sure this works now going forward and i think we are in a position to still protect most of the rebel strongholds at this date. jenna: a final question here on our perception to the world and how we are being received all over the world, the message, our policy message. you just got back from afghanistan. one of the questions that has come up about afghanistan and also libya is political sovereignty of another country. when you get involved and when you leave them alone. these are tough questions to answer, and we have probably less than a minute to do so, michael. i...

Several weeks now. one of the questions we are asking today is why now. michael hapb lan, a senior fellow at brookings institution is here with us now. michael are we too late. >> i don't think so. it's promising to note the change in tone from moammar gadhafi. if the goal were to build on the initial resolution in libya and quickly overthrow moammar gadhafi i suppose you might way we should have acted sooner. i would be content, frankly with a ceasefire that protected the civilians, the rebel strongholds and then allowed us to get back to sort of a more patient form of diplomacy to force moam...