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Harder. one of the problems is they want the advantages of burden sharing, in other words, sharing the burdens with other countries, they spent a lot of time today talking about how we're sharing the costs, but i think as a practical matter, if we're going to have nato involved, the united states needs to step up a little bit more and take a leadership role. i think we can get the turks in the end, but it has been wrangling with the french and british. multi lateralism is not only not easy to say, it is not easy to do, but has great advantages, but it is not as smooth and simple as the united ...

You may recall liberals were quick to criticize president george w. bush's actions in afghanistan and iraq. by comparison not only did bush acquire the necessary congressional approval before attacking either nation. he also had several dozen more international allies in his corner. here with reaction the host of varney and company on the -- fox business network and dana perino. he went to congress. he got approval. how many nations did he have by his side and we were told we with going it alone? >> i think it was over 30. some of the liberals' favorite lines was president bush was a unilatera...

You may recall liberals were quick to criticize president george w. bush's actions in afghanistan and iraq. by comparison not only did bush acquire the necessary congressional approval before attacking either nation. he also had several dozen more international allies in his corner. here with reaction the host of varney and company on the -- fox business network and dana perino. he went to congress. he got approval. how many nations did he have by his side and we were told we with going it alone? >> i think it was over 30. some of the liberals' favorite lines was president bush was a unilatera...

Public will follow the president's lead initially in this overseas action against gadhafi. editorial pages and those who dictate public opinion on these matters all agree gadhafi should be deposed. the larger problem the president has is the one that senator luger alluded to, perhaps not as much in the clip that you showed right there, which is the lack of definition to the purpose of this mission. the real purpose is to get rid of gadhafi. president obama must get rid of gadhafi if he's going to get the political upside of this and that is what is right and what he should be doing here. >> an...

You get the impression and in general the entire world has coalesced around this objective of getting rid of gadhafi. the down side is that you give up the mrajts to leadership. president obama should want to lead this, but he keeps pulling back. and i think that tension between multi lateralism and our desire to be in the lead is causing not only confusion militarily, but confusion in the eye of the public and i think that does not help the president. he has not spoken to the public with what you're doing, why we're doing. dennis kucinich is just background noise that disappeared. what is imp...