eventually the united states had to come in. this is a conflict that's going to be tempting us in the months to come. >> general marks, the rebel forces, as i said a moment ago, has said there's been no bombing in four days and there's a report in the "washington post" that says, u.s. officials are quoting nato is running out of precision bombs and munitions. can nato actually really realist tickically beat back gadhafi's forces? >> not with -- only through the application of errair, it can't done. nato had 42 flight missions announced on saturday but i don't know where they took place and clearly the rebels were on the ground and engaged and are really in a siege, if you will, in misrata are saying that those strikes are not as effectsive as they should be. clearly, as bob indicated, there needs to be a direct correlation between what are end states are we're trying to achieve. whether it's the eu, united