joint chiefs of staff, were all somewhat reluctant, gates and mullen in particular put out the word that they didn t think this was a particularly good idea early on. but it was many of the nato allies and what pushed everybody over the edge is when the arab league said, yes, they d be in favor of enforcing a no-fly zone over libya in order to protect libyan cities from moammar gadhafi s military. so the u.s. was almost dragged reluctantly into this. the only time that president obama really got himself directly involved is when he categorically declared that moammar gadhafi has to go. but when he was asked to back that up, the u.s. was reluctant to do it with any kind of direct military force at first. mick, do you think secretary gates painted himself into a corner a little bit on the sunday shows when he said we ll be out in a matter of days? the president says this is a mission that will be days and
about the food. it is mostly about the food because that s the question of you hear about milk that s contaminated and of course mothers are going to get concerned and that s the sort of that s going to go on for a long time. they re going to have to set up some kind of strict monitoring system, this is just at a time when the japanese were thinking they could become major food exporters to other nations in asia. that looks like that s not going to happen because other countries are finding radiation already on shipments of vegetables from japan. keeping a close on that reactor, bob bazell. the markets were already unstable over japan. now you add in the military action in libya. what s it all mean for wall street? cnbc s michelle caruso cabrera joins us with the answer. in terms of oil, libyan oil is higher about $2 a barrel as enforcement of the no-fly zone. when it comes to markets, we ll see a sharply higher market in the early going. it could be while the situation
european military. but even with the support, it is not clear the rebels will be able to advance to tripoli. they remain without a clear leadership. most of the rebels don t have military training and some unites of gadhafi s army here in the east have been holding out and so far, the rebels have not been able to take advantage of this incredible gift of western military support to drive and continue to advance to tripoli. willie? richard engel in libya for us this morning, thanks. for more perspective, i m joined by retired army four-star general barry mccaffrey. the general is also an nbc news military analyst. general mccaffrey, good morning. as far as you understand it, what is our objective here? is it strictly a humanitarian one or are we going after gadhafi? well, i think the pentagon s going to stick strictly with the u.n. declaration which has the sort of nonsensical notion of an air cap which doesn t protect anybody. remember, southern iraq, saddam
president obama made ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan a central pledge in his run for the white house. now two years into his presidency, the president is commander in chief of three conflicts overseas and he s finding it harder to stick to his domestic agenda, jobs and the economy. jonathan altar is national affairs columnist for newsweek and msnbc political analyst. john, good to see you. so he ratcheted up in afghanistan, doubled down there, now going into libya. are his supporters, people who voted for him in 2008, surprised to see barack obama the war president? i think they are. he first came to national prominence or even just prominence in illinois, with a speech against the iraq war. that s how barack obama became prominent. which he brought up repeatedly during the campaign. and he used it to beat hillary in the primary.
prestigious group in front of india s elite. she was paid for that and she decided on her own to go to israel. but she certainly made some news there in india, not only saying that there s no rush for her to decide, but she also once again blamed the media for her mistreatment. she says she doesn t play the victim card, and then she went after president barack obama on libya. she was specifically asked how she would deal differently with libya and she said, well, we have a tradition in the united states of not criticizing foreign leaders when we travel overseas, and then she did that and accused of president of dithering on libya. we ve got that sound bite. let s play it for our viewers. the u.s. has a tradition, of course, of americans, as we travel to foreign soil, we don t criticize our president s foreign policy, even as friendly as soil as india is. i won t criticize what his foreign policy has been but to answer your question, certainly there would have been more decisiveness