question. absolutely. and the exit strategy will be executed this week in the sense that we will be pulling back from our much more active efforts to shape the environment. how do you engage in what is combat now in effect with a crazy dictator like gadhafi while you are announcing what you will not do? well, i think the administration is playing a little bit too much to those in the congress and in the american people who are worried about us stretched too thin, emphasizing a bit too much things like there won t be a ground invasion. no one expects a ground invasion, or that other people will be paying for this. i think you re right. it is difficult to survive war in a democracyer wadvantage. but in the end, i think the public will stay with this. the trick is for the administration to distinguish between short term and long term goals. short term goal is what was