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Frightening. the president can make a decision. conflicting messages within the administration. they can't define what the actual mission is. now he's got the left wing of his own party . which tells me the president is going to try to bail out as soon as he can. france and great britain leading the way any way. your thoughts? >> i have a column on this on my website that i just wrote. the powell doctrine is the one we should follow in this situation. which says, first we need to avoid mission creep. second, we need to have clear objective. thirdly, before you go in, you need an exit strategy....

Are simply, the disease is gaddafi and his son and to end this, somebody, maybe the french because they've at least got the guts to do it, needs to go after gaddafi himself. until he and his sons are eliminated, the game goes on. >> ralph, colonel, we heard earlier from mike mullen, the chief of the joint chiefs, he said that ousting gaddafi was not on our agenda. so, you're right if somebody's going to do it it looks like it's going to have to be the french. >> are we there to drill holes in this guy with our aircraft and do aerobatics. president obama is a law professor and looks at this in ...

Army lieutenant, a senior research fellow at the heritage foundation. with another good day to you, james. let's talk about what the military is doing in libya. they called this first wave of attacks on anti-aircraft weapons and communications a success. so if that has been meant to establish a no-fly zone in place, what do you believe happens next? >> clear from what government officials have said that it will be more aggressive than just making sure that gadhafi's planes can't fly against the opposition. they have shown indications of attacking organized formations to make sure they can adva...

He's starting to play like a domestic egyptian politician. it's getting complicated and i think we'll find that the arabs are not the most reliability allies. >> is the league forgets where they toad just a week ago? did they not understand the risks involved in trying to subdue that? >> even though they should have certainly known they were opening a way for u.n. action at that time it looked lie a no-fly zone would be effective enough to stop gadhafi's troops advancing. the troops just steamrollered the opposition, and they were moving in on benghazi and about to besiege it. what started out...

>> i think the idea of having the president back off this and the united states back off it is what the president wants to do. >> how deep do you think the political will is behind this no fly zone? should it go on for weeks or months or longer than that? >> you know? that is something that i think we will have to be evaluating as the situation evolves, like egypt where we had to watch it evolve and see what action. there is not the political will to have america engage troops yet again for a variety of reasons. but there is the feeling that it is important that we play a leadership role and b...