we understand the deep heritage of member states in the european union with people in the united states of america and looking for ways that we could reassure this weekend leaders of the european union of our commitment to ongoing cooperation. and maintaining that partnership in the years ahead is hopefully a resonant message that came through and it is my great privilege to be here to deliver it. let me just end the focus of the alliance is how can we make sure we succeed in delivering on what we agreed about fair burden sharing and increased defense spending? i won t speculate on what will happen if we don t succeed but we heard a firm and clear message from the united states. from the president, from the vice president and from secretary mattis at the defense
absolutely not. so they re trying to get something going with nato behind the scenes so it wouldn t just be an american intervention. mccain says the president says gadhafi must go. right. but if he survives and stays in power, that sort of undermines the united states. it makes the u.s. looks weak. it does. he has a real point there. it s clear. the united states did this with egypt. right? president came out, said hosni mubarak must go. guess what? hosni mubarak went. completely different place. the united states would clearly like this to work, like it worked in egypt. that s not the case. they re doing certain things already. they re talking about nato conducting 24 of hour surveillance of libyan air space. enforcing an arms embargo. again, wolf, when you have the nato defense minister meeting, i