that s not the reason or the goal othe military mission being carried out right now in libya. secretary gates appeared with secretary of state hillary clinton on meet the press this morning. clinton told david gregory, it appears the coalition has halted gadhafi s efforts to route the rebels. i think if you were to look at where we were just a couple . he was intending by his own words to show no mercy, to go house to house. i think we prevented a great humanitarian disaster, which is always hard to point to something that didn t happen, but i believe we did. and now we re beginning to see, alitio to s his troops begin to turn back toward the west and to see the opposition beginning to reclaim ground they had lost. you can watch david gregory s entire interview with secretaries hillary clinton and robert gates when meet the press reairs at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc sunday. there s been more deadly