latest on a.c. 360. i talked to a man, a human rights worker who s really risking his life to tell us what he s seeing in the hospitals and in the streets. let s go back to wolf down in d.c. look forward to it, anderson, thanks very much. let s go over to the pentagon right now and talk about the costs of this war. it s only be a few days, chris lawrence is our pentagon correspondent. already well into the hundreds of millions of dollars for u.s. taxpayers, chris? that s right, wolf, you break it down, they fire now close to 200 tomahawk missiles, but the cost of that alone is between 250 million and $300 million. by some estimates it costs about $100,000 an hour to keep a fighter jet in the air. now all that said, at some point you degrade gadhafi s forces enough that you sort of run out of targets.
anderson, it has and we basically saw the opposition moving forward fairly easily thanks to those air strikes in the area. but then today he began to hit the tribal pro gadhafi areas and that is where they re running into an entirely different dynamic. one small town they went into which is around 60 miles to the east of gadhafi s hometown, opposition fighters were driven out of there by armed residents. they say that these residents were armed by gadhafi himself, but they went in to search these homes and then they were fired on. as they began their withdrawal, their retreat because they claim they did not want to fire back on the civilian population an cause collateral damage, they say they came under a hail of gun fire, and this is a very disturbing development here because it now adds this dynamic whereby which the opposition is not only going to have to fight gadha gadhafi s military, it is going
h unfortunately even after this speech, significant confusion about how far we go and until when we stay. remember, eliot, after the interventions in bosnia and kosovo, which were both regarded as successes, slobodan milosevic was still in power. some level of success allows you to say you have some level of success and continue to press. the most important part of the speech, not the most important, but the news making part about the speech is what most people have missed, which is that the president of the united states said that we are going to assist the coalition. so in other words, there is a policy now to shift the balance of power and to assist those against gadhafi in all kinds of
from the east of the country her family holding an engagement party with a man from her tribe, this is essentially the family saying that her honor is intact, her tribe saying that her honor is intact and saying to gadhafi, we stand with this lady and we stand against you moammar gadhafi, this is a very strong statement from her family and from the tribe. rallying behind her to save this woman s honor. let s get reaction right now from john mccain, the republican senator from arizona, he s the ranking member of the armed services committee, he was the republican presidential nominee only two years ago. did this president, senator mccain, meet the challenge that he s faced over the past several weeks successfully? i think that the first part of his speech i thought was excellent and he laid out the reasons why it was important to intervene and what would have happened in benghazi. and many of us that are
we are on the side of the rebels in this conflict, we re wiping out gadhafi s armor and we are preventing them from having the advantage in the air, in fact they stopped flying as soon as we declared the no fly zone. so it s clear that we are acting in the battlefield on the side of the rebels and that we can by keeping up the sustained pressure and movement, that gadhafi can be removed. if we tell gadhafi, you re not going to be removed by no, sir, that s very encouraging to gadhafi. i believe the rebels are succeeding because we negated the airpowers of gadhafi and we re on the way to success. but regime change is not going to take place by force, i certainly can t agree with him. he s a danger to the world and the locker nger he stays in pow