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Scenes. i think france sees itself as wanting to own its franchise, for whatever political reasons it has, it wants to maintain a lot more latitude, and i think president obama is perfectly willing to let sarkozy play that role. i do think that we will continue doing -- what they've been saying is we have unique capacities. those are not just drones and tomahawks. they're the ability to sin think size and put together very complex systems in ways no other country in the world can. so i think that will be a background role. >> general, last question to you. if it turns out the rebels do take ou...

Doing. i have problems with the the fact that he seems to say he's following the u.n. resolution, and yesterday he set he's going beyond the u.n. resolution, because he want gadhafi out, whereas the u.n. resolutions says it's into humanitarian concerns. i think what i need from the president is not off with your head for going into libya. i understand there's some good that's been done already. when the -- when benghazi was rebel-held benghazi was reped, but he does need to do more than send us a her. he needs to do what every republican president has done, come under the war powers act, get a...

Followed by a popular revolt against mubarak. the arab spring would present the president with a defining foreign policy crisis. in march 2011, he addressed the american people from national defense university in washington. the president who wanted to pivot away from the middle east was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in labia. to stop a bloodbath, in a port city that most americans had never heard of. a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscious of the worl...

Looked more like a desert rally than a military campaign. rebels in cars speeding away, retreating. with tanks, artillery, and flanking maneuvers, gadhafi's troops easily drove the rebels back, far away from gadhafi's hometown of sirte. from a safe distance, the rebels fired back, but their weapons' range -- >> we need the air force to help us. that's what we need. without them we can't do anything. >> reporter: witnesses say gadhafi is also planting landmines in the desert, making any ground advance even more difficult. but the worst fighting appears to be in the west in misurata. deep inside...