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>> we're talking about 2% of the world's oil, yes, it's a humanitarian situation, but at the risk of sounding cold, it's not on the scale of rwanda, say, we don't have a million people, innocent men women and children whose lives are threatened. this is something much more minor. this is a civil war. in civil wars people get killed unfortunately. this is not a humanitarian intervention, we shouldn't kid ourselves. this is political intervention in a civil conflict, which by the way history suggests often prolongs the civil conflict and as several people have pointed out, what is step b? whethe...

Fundamentally divided with places where people are killing each other and places the government is not in control. >> jim miklaszewski, see iraq, afghanistan, eight and ten years respectively. in iraq, this was supposed to be in, greeted like liberators and we were going to leave. >> as yogi berra would say, deja vu all over again. to tear down a couple of facades quickly, one that this is about a no-fly zone, it's not. as a matter of fact, u.s. air force f-15s and f-16s today were over libya with the express purpose of attacking libyan ground forces, which they did. and yesterday admiral gort...

Him. i think the administration is hopeful that a number of people around him whether back away and will force him out. but if there is a power vacuum, somebody will fill it. there are a number of people around who can do that in the tripoli area. it wouldn't be necessarily for the whole of libya because eastern and western are great different. but twlld be leadership in the tripoli area. >> what would you say would be the best case scenario if you could look forward in time? >> the best case scenario is that gadhafi leaves and the subsequent leadership forges some kind of alliance with the ot...

Also it raises the importance of an administration having its priorities. you've got a lot to manage with japan, a lot to manage with what's going on in the broader middle east. you've got a lot to manage what's going on in the united states in terms of our economy and deficit. one of the real questions is, why are we doing as much as we are doing in libya? so many of the guests are talking about too little too late. let me give you another idea, david, too much too late. in times of crisis and multiple crises, administrations have to figure out their priorities. they have to do some triage. t...

Places that there were a few weeks ago when i was here. so things are moving forward. an i think, yes, you're right, people are watching very closely what's happening throughout the region, but it is so starkly different how the process has played itself out here as opposed to other parts of the region. things are moving forward and you see what's happening in libya and bahrain of course, as well. >> ron allen in egypt watching all t all of the act. appreciate it. we'll go to rio as we were listening to president obama. take a listen to this. >> we see the people of libya take a courageous sta...