down in the streets? why aren t we in bahrain or syria right now? the answer is, ed rendell, we can t send troops everywhere when dictators behave badly. we don t have enough forces. and the other thing is yemen and bahrain, their governments are those leadership structures are there than gadhafi is. let me answer ed, if i might. are you going to support me? you re dead right. mccain and lieberman and the guy from south carolina, they re yelling about attacking this guy and that guy. we have no right to do those attacks. but the arab league has, so-called, authorized this. why in the devil are the egyptians with 85 million people when kwlab has six, why isn t their army move something why is their army not moving into benghazi? this is an arab crisis. why is the united states, all the way across the ocean, got to
in short, it is now in our national security interest to prevent him from retaliating in this way. so so it is a nuance thing then. there are other elements that factor in. because there were some op eds this weekend saying why aren t we in bahrain, then? why aren t we in other places where attacks are happening or dictators are suppressing their people? well, there is always some level of double standard in american foreign policy. i served in government during a time we used force against the serbs in europe. and people said why did you do that instead of africa or other places? we can t do everything. but just because we can t do everything doesn t mean that we shouldn t do what we can at a relatively low cost to prevent
what would have been this week on your show and all the other shows a report about a massacre occurring inside in benghazi. so there is, you know, a limit to what america can do. and as far as the analogy to bahrain, it s been made, you re absolutely right, but i don t think it s a fair analogy. bahrain is a very, very different place than libya. and gadhafi is a uniquely dastardly figure in the community. thank you so much for joining us and giving your perspective. it s been great having you walk us through all this. thanks. okay. this news just in. there is smoke coming out of reactor two at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant in japan. reactor two was the one thought to be easy to get under control. this is the one that workers have been trying to connect an electric cable to in order to get the cooling system back in place. earlier today we knew there was smoke coming out of reactor