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Nicholas burns, former under secretary of state and former u.n. ambassador to nato. and here in washington, former nato supreme allied commander retired general george jalwan. let me turn to you first, general. we heard early on in a couple of interviews, the u.s. is nato, we're the center of it, stepping back is not working. we need to get back in the forefront not just with predator drones but with these low-flying planes that can spray the ground fairly easily. would you go along with that. >> yes, as long as the political objectives are clear and i'm not sure the political objectives both ...

Here. i want to move you first to libya. and admiral mullen said in iraq that this was moving toward a stalemate. i want you to tell me what it looks like to you. >> looks like a stalemate. the military's strategy of taking u.s. air assets out of nato i think was a big mistake. we have a unique capability. we got ac-130s, a-10s that can do a lot of damage to the libyan forces supporting gadhafi. when you take these off the battlefield -- you know, we wanted a no-fly zone for the libyan aircraft, not ours. so it is leading to a military stalemate. i'm glad the predator drones are going to be us...

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West. they don't even -- you know, inflicting blood on another country and it's sort of an unfair war tactic and it makes us look like ugly americans. what are the politics of using the predator drone? >> well, we've certainly seen that negative reaction in pakistan in places where we've used predator in the past. but i think libya is different. because, after all, you remember, candy, the arab league came out and said it wanted the intervention of nato in the internal affairs of another arab state, libya. the u.n. security council has blessed this. there's widespread support for protectioning...

Last night, one seemed to hit an ammunition dump. the libyan government has not confirmed that yet, however there was one big explosion in that case and there were several smaller secondary explosions that we heard as well. these air strikes went on for the better part of the night and they seem to be very, very heavy. there was also a lot of antiaircraft fire here in the tripoli area. meanwhile, nato is also saying that it is conducting a lot of air strikes in support of the rebels in misratah. of course they're also using the predator drone. one of the things that the rebels in misratah have...