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he said gadhafi must go. he did. how do you get him out thereof. you tell me. put cia agents on the ground and have them take him out. oh, wait. there are a few points to make here, though. obama is really going to have trouble keeping his coalition here. andrew sullivan at the atlantic, he wrote a scathing blog post, what he is doing? this say stupid war. secondly, there s a cost element. $373 million every six days is what the congressional research survey says. during a budget crisis that s a lot to spend. thirdly, i m glad the media is being skeptical about this. it s what was needed pre-iraq. i think obama will have to answer the questions. the bottom line is you should never go into war, mika, unless you know what the exit strategy is. you don t go in until you know when you ll come out. george bush didn t have the answer to that in iraq. we still don t have the answer to that in afghanistan and barack obama doesn t have the answer to that in libya. it s not a war, ....
That. if you say he s got to go, and the gang out there in benghazi can t do it quite obviously, even with american air force, then you ve got to say, look, in the last analysis if we have to do a northern alliance with americans going in there and throwing him out, that s what we ve got to do because he cannot survive. but you ve got to make the command decision and then everything falls into place. this is what too many times american leaders do, they stumble into a war like this. where we now put ourselves into a position where gadhafi can t survive but who replaces gadhafi? we don t know. is it going to be elements of al qaeda? it s a horrible situation. this shoot first and ask questions later i just don t think that s how that s where we are, mika. he did not shoot first. he took 31 days. wdotkno replacing gadhafi. who s going t replace gadhafi? he doesn t know. we re in a terrible position. yes. terrible position. maybe donald trump will go ....
Mika, not going to be the most beautiful day in the world. if you re sitting outdoors today, the nationals are starting their season this afternoon in washington, d.c. the yankees have opening day, too. both locations it s going to be gloomy and cool. they ll see on and off rain. this isn t the nor easter. this is part one. part two will be later on tonight. we have light rain, anywhere from d.c. to baltimore, all the way up to new york city, carry the umbrella, including hartford and boston. later tonight is when the snow arrives. winter storm warnings for areas outside of new york city and northern jersey. winter storm warnings for albany, all of vermont, new hampshire and maine. those are the areas that will see the heaviest snows. the big cities, mostly rain with snow on the outside. burlington, alban anywhere, you could have a snow day tomorrow, kids. it could be shoveling, too. for boston, providence and new york, just a coating of snow on the backside of the storm. mostly cold r ....
Tactics will he use to retaliate? he may blow up airliners, massacre people. if you say the guy s got to go and you re the president of the united states and the super power, he s got to go. i do agree with that. do i think in terms of getting collective action, support from around the world and waiting him out, there has been a methodical approach to this. sam stein. he was diligent. mika s right about this. he was diligent and thoughtful of going through the process of getting the support, making it an international mission. the means, the end game wasn t defined. we re in this middle ground where we are engaged in regime change but we re not going to say it. kelly? what s interesting is what you re saying about if you don t go further, what are the consequences? if you look back in history, you have some republicans talking about what happened in 19, leaving saddam hussein in power after the gulf war. i think on the world stage it is obama versus gadhafi. it s not sarkozy ....
Say now we re going to leave. mike barnicle, looks like we ve gone into libya, mika disagrees, but we ve gone in there without an end game, just like we ve been in afghanistan now for a decade without an end game. this at least to me doesn t seem to be anyway to run a foreign policy operation. well, joe be i think there is an end game. it s been articulated. whether they can achieve the end game is another question entirely. the end game is gadhafi has to go. but mike, who takes over gadhafi s place? is it al qaeda and does that require americans to be sitting in libya for another decade to make sure al qaeda doesn t get their hands on oil? well, that is their ultimate problem, is it not? because the only way you can win a war, check throughout history since people have been throwing rocks at one another, the only way you can win a war is ultimately, eventually with troops on the ground. you can do all sorts of incredible things from the air with air power. no doubt about that. ....