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Closely as i can and i think it's hard to tell. it certainly wasn't american leadership. clearly other countries were calling for action and prepared to take action before the united states was. i think that, you know, the atmosphere changed when the arab league came out and called for the imposition of a no-fly zone. we haven't seen much of that kind of thing from the arab league before. it's happened. and then of course the u.n. seemed prepared to act. at which point the president decided to participate. i think it's followership. the question is will these military steps being taken by the ...

Said, you know, this is a difficult mission for the military. our third war. we don't want to get involved. i would add in terms of responding to something bill said that what you have got here is a situation where the u.s. government has frozen qaddafi's assets, where the u.s. government has embargoed purchasing libyan oil. this all serves to isolate qaddafi and i think limit what he can do. and is going to expedite the fact that qaddafi is gone. i don't think there is any way qaddafi stays in power. this is not about the u.s. going in there or bombing his home or anything like that. i think ...

Disaster. what does the crisis there mean for energy policy at home? we'll get the latest from japan and talk with the secretary of energy steven chu plus we'll ask our sunday panel if the president is taking a lead on these issues or following all right now on "fox news sunday." and hello again from fox news in washington where we are tracking two major stories. we have a reporter in libya where the u.s. and its allies are using military force to protect the anti-qaddafi rebels. and in japan where officials are making progress toward bringing a nuclear plant under control. we'll have more on ...

From power? >> this particular military mission is very focused on ensuring that he can't kill his civilians and that we are able to support humanitarian efforts. and then specifically for us, we are currently in the lead to move to a support role over the next few days. and i don't know exactly when that is going to occur in terms of the coalition taking the leadership here positions of the operation. and we're on track to do that. i think to know where this is going long term from my perspective on the military, from the military perspective, it's not -- i haven't been given a mission beyond...

Specifically, and to protect his civilians and we have done that or we started to do that. clearly we have taken down the important modes to remove his capability. this is not about going -- going after qaddafi himself or attacking him at this particular point in time. it's about achieving these narrow and relatively limited objectives so that he stops killing his people and so that he humanitarian support can be provided. >> chris: i want to get to that mission in a second. first, i want to follow up on what harrigan said. qaddafi is calling this operation colonial, crusader, aggression. the ...