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Said that there is no military solution to the problem. the rebel forces are incapable of making it to tripoli andç forcibly removing gadhafi. he's not going anywhere so it's a kind of stalemate and a kind of de facto partition between eastern and western libya. tamron? >> stephanie, thank you very much. and in the ivory coast forces have successfully arrested strong man laurent gbagbo. forces stormed the bunker where he was hiding out. the dramatic capture came after days of fighting in which french and u.n. forces fired rockets into the presidential rez dense. officials are waiting for gba...

In fact, we quite often do with our friends the saudis. make no mistake about it, they've been our friends now ever since franklin roosevelt met with the king on the u.s. warship. and way back in the early 1940s. and you don't just walk away from allies like that. militarily, do we encourage them to open up, become more transparent, reform? yes, we do. king abdullah has shows signs of, in fact, doing that. but that's a far cry from our getting in there militarily. each country is different, though. that's another thing that i think we need to keep in mind. these countries -- these countries an...

Our friends the saudis. make no mistake about it, they've been our friends now ever since franklin roosevelt met with the king on the u.s. warship. and way back in the early 1940s. and you don't just walk away from allies like that. militarily, do we encourage them to open up, become more transparent, reform? yes, we do. king abdullah has shows signs of, in fact, doing that. but that's a far cry from our getting in there militarily. each country is different, though. that's another thing that i think we need to keep in mind. these countries -- these countries and what's happening in these coun...

Bad guy, it's the one we have confronted for years in libya. so it was a little bit easier there to make a limited exception to the idea that you don't use military force unless you have a national interest at stake. generally, though, that's a sound idea. because the american people have to support the policy. if you don't have the national interest, you will ultimately lose the support of the american people if the policy -- if the event carries on for too long. >> take a look at a place that many americans increasingly feel we do not have a national interest. that is afghanistan. there is -...

Least, i could support the idea of a limited use of military power. to prevent a humanitarian nightmare in libya. but more generally, i think we're experiencing truly momentous events across that whole ark, that whole region. generally speaking, i think we need to be clear that we're going to always support our principles and values, that is the promotion of democracy and the protection of human rights, politically, diplomatically and economically. when it comes to the use of military power, we need to find a national interest because you have to maintain the support of the american people in ...