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Over to the french and british as well. they're the ones that convinced secretary clinton that we ought to go do this and convinced the president. as i say, he's been snookerred. the fact is this has no good outcome any way you look at it. and if we leave a failed state, then we're going to be in trouble. so they're going to turn to us, they're going to want our money and our stabilization force. already, we've had mission creep. we've gone from a no-fly zone of air superiority to interdiction, hitting qaddafi's forces on the ground to close air support and senator mccain wants to have a no fl...

Resolution, that provides for robust operations to protect the people of libya, there is the possibility of, i think, expanding this operation and not with u.s. forces, but, frankly, with other forces, like the french, the british, the qataries and that will send a strong signal to qaddafi that his days should be limited. we have to consider, not the u.s., but internationally, some type of stabilization force, the most significant step i think going forward. but, the flexibility gives the u.n. and the international -- >> you are saying you want boots on the ground? >> not u.s. forces, the pres...

Robust operations to protect the people of libya, there is the possibility of, i think, expanding this operation, not with u.s. forces but, frankly, with other forces like the french, the british, the qatarys. that, i think, will send a strong signal to qaddafi that his days should be limited. we have to consider not the u.s. but internationally some type of stabilization force. that's the most significant step, i think, going forward. but the flexibility of the u.n. resolution gives the united nations and the international community the ability to. >> chris: you saying you want boots on the g...

League, but if they don't have an international stabilization force when we fundamentally are destroying much of the country, you're going to have an unstable government that will be easy prey for al-qaeda. martha: that raises some interesting questions as to whether or not we could get that kind of stabilizing force, a muslim stabilizing force there. turkey has not been all that cooperative in the past in these endeavors on our part. i want to ask you a question that i raised in the introduction as well, and that is, you know, it seems to me that the president, one of the things that he's bet...