any illusion at all that the u.s. and its coalition partners right now are going to let when all the dust settles gadhafi stay in power? well, you know, wolf, i really don t know. wars have all kinds of consequences, intended ones, unintended ones. when we enter the fog of war, we don t know what the outcome is. you yourself talked about gulf war i. in gulf war i in 1991 we let saddam off the hook, and we trusted we trusted his faith to the iraqi people. remember george herbert walker bush saying it will be up to the iraqi people to take care of him. well, he survived. not only did he survive, he survived 12 years, he survived until george w. bush came after him directly and then he ran for his bunker, and we had to flush him out several months later. i don t know i don t think any of the people involved in this war know the outcome. gadhafi doesn t know the outcome. he entered this war, and now he will see what he will see. he will witness what he will witness.
all the dust settles gadhafi stay in power? well, you know, wolf, i really don t know. wars have all kinds of consequences, intended ones, unintended ones. we enter the fog of war we don t know what the out yom is. you yourself talked about gulf war i. in gulf war i in 1999 we let saddam off the hook and we trusted his faith not iraqi people. remember george herbert walker bush saying it will be up to the iraqi people to take care of him. well, he survived. not only did he survive, he survived 12 years, until george w. bush came after him directly and then he ran for his bunker and we had to flush him out several months later. i don t think any of the people involved in this war know the outcome. gadhafi doesn t know the outcome. he entered this war and now he will see what he will see. he will witness what he will witness. and i think for president obama, this is a war he never wanted. he he didn t want it, he didn t
machine so the dynamics here are much, much more violent, much more complex. it does not appear that kafka daf if i is going to be relinquishing his grip on power anytime soon. add to that the fact that foreign pressure on gadhafi doesn t really work the way it did in mubarak s case. when i was in egypt last week, the egyptians it kept saying the major difference between what happened in egypt is that the egyption military by and large refused to kill fellow egyptians. the libyan military under gadhafi obviously ready to kill fellow libyans. a huge, huge difference. that s why this war has unfolded. the way it has. we ll stay in close touch with you. please, please be careful. unrest continues elsewhere in the arab world, as well. in yemen, three top generals and several senior officials declared their support for anti-government demonstrations today and one general said he ll
the death knell of al qaeda? i don t know if it is. that s probably i don t know what year that occurs but it is not good for al qaeda. we should learn our lesson from this. one thing we ought to have learned is sticking with the one-manle rule dictatorships puts us out of touch with the people. we are worried about what s next in part because we haven t bothered to make contact and we have to learn to live with that. i will ask you, can the president walk the balance? he wants regime change but that s not what the bombs are about. the bombs serve many purposes at the same time. it would be a mistake for the president now to pull back and say, we have done whatever we are going to do. let s see what happens. i don t think we have the option. we have to continue to use the forces we have in place under the u.n. mandate to help the opposition and ensure that gadhafi doesn t survive this. do we have a moral obligation if we are with you on day two, three, four and five do we h
that s the twa rebeway the rebe it. david address what we just heard from senator luger. he s not a partisan. he said the president doesn t have a clear plan, doesn t have an exit strategy, he thinks this will go on a lot longer than what the president says. nick burns described the general problems very well and that was the administration really didn t want to go into this. they were dragged in not only by the british and french but by events on the ground and then they made this head snapping turn in policy and as a result it was cobbled together very quickly. and there was a lack of clarity as the mission started. i do think we got more clarity today, john, from the president about what the overall goal is and i think the distinction he s making while it is convoluted is one that makes sense and that is that the military mission is to stop gadhafi but the policy of the united states is to get him