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At long last the u.n security council on thursday approved a resolution authorizing military intervention in libya. the vote and u.s. support for the measure came weeks after president obama first declared that libyan strong man muammar qaddafi must go. we are back. we have dan and kim and joining us is board member matt kaminski. is it too late, matt? >> they really cut it choose. troops are about a hundred kilometers and they waited until the absolute last minute. it wasn't in thanks to the u.s. it was the french that pushed us here. they made it harder to succeed. even a week ago we had a n...

>> i agree with dan about the ideology that is pushing this. it is over hung by a political calculation. but this administration is petrified of being compared to the bush administration, the warmongers and the bush administration. they look and they have many on the professional level who are howling that obama might take them to another war. they are worried that the public doesn't have appetite for any military conflict. this is a white house that is focused on 2012. they want to ep could the approval rating in the high 40s and keep them to the time he has a gop candidate. then he can go in...

The president already said qaddafi has to go. and now the u.n says we will try to give you the means, short of ground troops. it will have to be air, but we can do that. will we let a stalemate happen? can we afford to let a stalemate happen? >> basically what you would be talking about is a partition libya where the rebels hold the east and qaddafi gets the west. it would give qaddafi access to oil revenue. if he gets the revenue he will behave in a very bad way. we have gotten to the point where qaddafi has to go because he owes nobody anything, and he will get back into the terror business....

Edition of with the the journal editor yapt report." thank you for watching. we hope to see you here next week. a week has passed since the record earthquake and killer tsunami hit japan. the heartbreaking images demanding the coverage on tv and the internet. and as concern over nuclear meltdown stole the headlines, journalists struggle to get the facts and deliver the story. >> there are a lot of people in japan this morning wondering exactly whether they are getting the right information. >> and with the disaster in japan, the uprising in bahrain. qaddafi's attacks against rebels in libya ...

Say it is a cease-fire. let's talk. you may have a divided and very messy libya. >> what do you think changed the dynamics, dan? why did the u.n finally decide to move? >> they finally decided to move because as one of the rebel commanders said, the blood of the international community is on their hands. they were sitting there ready to die. they were ready to get hammered. i think the international community finally said, it has gone too far and we have to do something. people are sitting in their homes watching it on television. >> it was the potential for political embarassment? >> oh yeah....