the u.s. commander in africa says the mission is to protect civilians, not to support opposition forces. but in real, is it possible to do one without the other? well, the initial attacks, as you previously mentioned, have been strikes against command and control air defense assets which freeze up options to undertake further missions following the clearing 0 the skies of pro-gadhafi defensive forces. despite what we ve been told about this being a humanitarian mission, only targeting gadhafi s air installations and so on, munitions areas, isn t there an unspoken intention here on part of the allies themselves to kill gadhafi? well, i can t really comment on that. that s more a political decision. if you noticed the u.n. mandate is quite open. it tells the participants they can take whatever means necessary to protect civilians, and obviously that means engaging small numbers of gadhafi forces who might be
the chinese are putting up. it looks like they are ready to get all of their stuff together and then one day there s going to be a taiwan something or other come up. and they are going to go america, shut up! is that what we could look forward to? i think it is if we don t prepare. we ve they ve been complaining about the george washington aircraft carrier doing exercises in the region. complaining about exercises in the yellow sea in response to the to the north koreans killing south korean sailors and sinking a ship in the spring. they are putting together advanced missile, cyber and space and air defense assets you put those together and you can protect and cordon off all of the sea the first island chain around china and push the united states back to guam even hawaii that s what they would like. shepard: they have all the money too. at least access to a lot of it. they control a lot more things
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