important role to play. i wouldn t want to see it minimized but, on the other hand, the president will answer these questions. therapy answerable. it s just a matter of getting it done. it s difficult, because he s out of country. it is. general wesley clark, thank you for being with us today. appreciate it. head of the arab league says his group stands by the u.n. support on libya. qatar says it will send fighter jets. over the weekend, the league support wasn t so clear. the secretary-general said the 22-member nations wanted to see civilians protected, not shelled. anderson cooper talked about those mixed signals with an expert on international studies. this is the classic textbook. amazing the data league said anything about gadhafi. what is the arab league? gadhafi was part of the arab league. absolutely. the arab league has regimes themselves are in wars with
their own population and don t want to come down on gadhafi and don t want to, in many ways, show you can oppress your own people. the enemies in the arab league and on and on. so it s a wonder of wonder the arab league actually gave what we could contrue is what a green light, was it a yellow light? we could see a flickering light. but that is the arab league. you heard him mention yemen and syria. both of those countries are seeing more protests against their government. yemen a top general says he s on the protester side and order his troops to protect them, not crush him. yemen s president might be ready to have a deal to give up. explain what is going on inside yemen with this deal, mohammed. reporter: a lot of conflicting reports out of yemen what the intentions of the president are. some people are suggesting he is ready to make a deal with the
numbers so that they can continue to protect him? they are. unfortunately, they are. he has a large number of loyalists surrounding him and most of them had lived a luxurious life when things were going good for him. so they feel that if they abandon him, they, themselves, are also going to be in trouble, so, basically, they are sticking by him for their own survival. so the no-fly zone appears to be working and maybe gadhafi is hiding out in one of these underground tunnels. i mean, eventually, would he capitulate in some way and what would that involve, do you suppose? from the way i know him, throughout the years, he is not going to capitulate. he is going to fight it out. the only possibility that some of his loyalists will begin to realize that they are on a losing side, once they realize
and britain and italy say nato should take over but france nato should not take over. an american plane went down today. this isn t exactly the best time to figure out details like this, is it? no, but sometimes this happens. this is the administration has to work with its allies and it has to put together these coordination measures and control measures and has to do it in haste because gadhafi was moving quickly on the ground and you re just watching it in real-time as the process of diplomacy takes place. nations have different interests. france has a different interest than britain, say, in the area. turkey certainly has its own interests. and what we did 11, 12 years ago in kosovo over a long period of time we worked these issues out without publicity and without people knowing what was going on. so nations could work together. here, it s all out in the
humanitarian need on the ground and gadhafi s efforts to wipe out benghazi. apparently, all of the consultation wasn t made and all of the questions weren t answered. congress was on break during this period. okay, they are asking these questions. these questions can be answered. but at what point do american politicians need to be on the same page even if they are exactly not, to support our troops over there? i think the issue in this case these politicians also have a duty to their constituents to ask the tough questions. it s not a football game. and it s not about supporting your own team so much as it is getting it right and the questions that congress asks at the outset can be important. they can raise important issues that are going to be critical in the long run. in the long run, we have to do this right and we have to do it in accordance with law and in accordance with other interests of the united states and in accordance with what the american people see as our real nat