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And again, i'm very uncomfortable with launching a military intervention given the fact that we're setting in motion a chain of events. it's not simply that we don't know. we have no reason to be confident that the people we are trying to help prevail will institute a form of governance that will necessarily be in our or libya's interest. >> that raises the question obviously about the rebels. who are they and let me go to the ambassador and jane harman, are we sure as richard haass asked the question, sure that the rebels in the end are going to be exactly what we want to have there? >> well,...

Let's get straight to our panel, richard haass is the president on the council on foreign relations. and also the former u.s. ambassador to iraq and former director of national intelligence. robert kagan is a senior fellow with the brookings institution and jane harman from california who chaired the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and is now the new president and ceo of the woodrow wilson center. ambassador, i'm going to start with you because you have been generally supportive of this action in libya. there is an international coalition against gadhafi and nato is assuming ...

Of a more robust nato presence. we don't know what the nato objectives will be although we know nato is taking over command from the united states. my final point is and i made this over and over again about limited brain cells. yes, you're right, bob, that we mostly have our navy in place, although imagine if the straits of hormuz were blocked we might need our navy there. or if something happens in another part of the world, we might need it there. we've got a lot of assets offshore libya. but my point is that brain cells are limited. if we have most of the white house tied up trying to make...

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Put on your director of national intelligence hat and talk about what jane harman is talking about, the fact that yemen is a haven for al qaeda and this could be distracting us from paying enough attention to that. >> first of all, i think we do have the bandwidth to deal with libya and these other situations in the middle east. i think yemen definitely is a a concern boat its inherent political stability and the fact there might be a political vacuum there if the president falls or the situation falls into disarray, just create more opportunities for the extremists. but i would agree with bot...