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Obviously they're playing political games and we've seen it before. that's a shame. if we give the president more than a week to make his strategy work in libya, it may just be the approach to humanitarian intervention we've been trying to get right for years. i asked a new york times columnist that very question last night while he was in cairo. isn't this what we've been waiting for for decades? global action t massacres by dictators? >> yeah, it absolutely is. maybe the oldest problem in international relations is what you do when you have a dictator devouring his own people. and normally t...

International community really reacted. this time it took 3 1/2 weeks. so there's real progress. >> and what are people on the ground saying? the average libyan, if you will. are they happy with the military intervention? >> there's no doubt that people in eastern libya are overwhelmingly happy with intervention. now, it is true that people in eastern libya have always been more antagonistic towards gadhafi. in western libya, it's harder to gauge because they're under gadhafi control and people can't speak freely. but when one does speak, when he will talk to people in tripoli or in places aro...

Gaddafi also got hair plug, he says. he adds the libyan leader got hungry in the procedure so midway through he stopped to have a hamburger. as unrest continues in libya and throughout the middle east, china appears to be trying to nip any protests in the bud. the "new york times" noted reports have interrupted cell phone calls, e-mail and internet access. in some cases cell phones were cut off when word "protest" was uttered twice. one was about a dinner reservation where they quoted the line from hamlet "the lady does protest too much." then the phone went dead in china, even shakespeare c...

People. >> the u.s. limited the response to government violence of protester and yemen that caused for cease-fire. explaining the scale of the catastrophe in libya is why they went farther there. but with yemeni president, a strong american ally, they suggest that the u.s. isn't anxious to push him. >> i think we will basically continue to watch the situation. we haven't done any post-planning if you will. >> at today's libya briefing, lawmakers say the president ruled out killing gaddafi and said there are other ways to force him from power. even if that is not a goal of the u.n. security cou...

It's ironically brought them criticism from both sides. people who don't think we have an interest there and people who think we should be there more robustly. >> if that's the case, though, you're not advocating for ground troops, are you? that obviously proved disastrous in iraq and here we would be in the middle of'm advocating for of things, cenk. i think the administration needs to be much more clear about its strategy with people they spent time building up a rhetorical case the stakes are quite high for america in the region and for america specific cliff in libya, yet they still seem t...