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Reason to cut more and more of the arrangements with the taliban. the united states is a couple of years away from being gone. they will step up to the links tot the taliban officials. president obama said he wanted to win this war as a candidate. now as a president, he is more realistic and saying we want to do the best we can and get out responsibly. what will be left will be substantially messier than it would have been had we started this war ten years ago the way president obama has run it in the last two years. putting the full force of the united states in effect. >> it is interesting h...

>> if you talk to folks at the pentagon, there are real concerns about the way forward even if the best-case-scenario happens, muammar qaddafi leaves or is taken out by some of his own people, the way forward on the ground in a very tribal culture of libya, is still a question mark. how that comes together, and how the oil is dealt with, and how a government is formed post muammar qaddafi, those are real questions. one point about speech tonight, the president and the administration is making an effort to not make this is a traditional war speech at the national dense university, not an oval o...

Leave, leave. ron is fine. we're just trying to get the connection lined up to talk to him. i want to bring in our guests at this hour for us. from the london school of economics and here with us in washington, aaron miller who had a big role in shaping middle east policy as a state department adviser for six different secretaries much state. he is now a public policy fellow at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. i will start with you, however, fawaz, what just happened? >> that is really vintage mubarak. everyone who knows president mubarak says he will fight to the end. thi...

Assaulting our shores and our citizens. tonight, i'd like to lay out for you what our battle plan is going forward. >> glenn: got it? "battle plan. "assault on our shores, world war ii. george stephanopoulos described this as martial language. >> the addresses are used when the national is at war. tonight, the president used martial language and talked about the siege, assault on the shores and the battle plan to fix it and he said we have to rally together. i think what the white house was reaching for tonight is the feel of franklin roosevelt in world war ii and the fireside chats. the presi...