out of libya is an objective, how are we going to accomplish that? how are we going to bring this to closure? i don't see how this ends. >> i don't know how this ends. i'm more depressed than i thought i would be. if something doesn't become clearer and more decisive, it will be very difficult to get authorization to approve the plan as it is. >> is the mission in libya clear to you? >> the mission is -- is clear. i think we are in the process of developing those key elements that allows us to go down the path to get to the understand sta end state. but the original premise for doing anything in libyan was humanitarian, to prevent a massacre that gadhafi himself said he would conduct, and the united states decided to act to prevent that, now -- and it was