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Senator webb and several others have said, we should have a debate in the senate and the house. do we want to go to war.il trag support it or you don't support it. >> what about the humanitarian effort and the intervention in that regard? and setting all of this up, protecting those civilians with this military action. >> well, for sure, we all want to protect civilians as much as possible. the question is, is it in fact accomplishing that. as there was a quote in the paper about somebody in libya who had said, we need to -- we need an intervention that's around tanks and around snipers. we ha...

Pennsylvania andu.merci. jim, before we leave, we've been talking about the weight placed on the american military in libya, afghanistan, iraq, obviously. but we're also off the coast of japan. what about the concentrated weight and the efforts of the united states military around the globe? >> before we go there, mike, i want to say i was just informed that the second air force crew member from the f-15 that crashed in libya has now been recovered. he's safe and on the way to europe is that's good news. there's been a tremendous weight on the u.s. military as a result of more than ten years o...

So president obama may have opened the door but i think administration officials have tried to close it confining our actions to the ton resolution. no wl gadhafi fall? let's go back to kosovo. you remember that clinton was criticized by democrats and republicans ripped a rear end for going in. we did not lose one american soldier and we get rid of rid of him. and we might be able to do it without boots on the ground. and then what? we'll say barack obama was a geni genius? >> i don't know that that will be said. we stumbled into thisoli d hopeh tnur out ll thk e esentla ings rftlla week but -...

Pan am 103. he should be removed from power with training and equipment, i believe that the antigadhafi forces can prevail. >> let's bring in our company now. pat buchanan and msnbc contributor and pulitzer prizewinning journalist karen hunter. pat, we just heard from a bunch of different people. where do you come down on this? >> senator mccain is correct that the united states could certainly crush gadhafi, but we're a still republic. before the president can take us to war against a country that hasn't attacked us, he has got to get a declaration of war or the authorization of the constitut...

With such force out of a fighter jet like an f-15. but i have to emphasize u.s. officials are saying no evidence of any hostile fire that may have brought the aircraft down, joe. >> jim, should we be skeptical asking why f-15s are falling out of the sky for mechanical reasons? >> no. this is -- you have to understand that they've been operating round-the-clock now for sometime. not only here, but in the theaters in iraq and afghanistan. and you occasionally have mechanical malfunctions like this in training missions in the us. but when the pilots punch out safely and there's no collateral dama...