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
so how do you bridge that gap between what this military intervention is designed to accomplish and is supposed to accomplish and what the president has said is the policy of this administration? greg, let s talk about the he will fent in the room here. and it is gadhafi and the fact that he may stay or may go or whatever they want to say about all of this. isn t it a fact that they want to see him gone, dead or alive, it s not to see gadhafi stay in power or probably even breathing any longer? yes. you re right. i mean, the president has said so, that he has said that gadhafi must leave. but they are trying to balance something else, which is to try to overhaul the united states s image in this part of the world. and so he wants this to happen but he does not want the u.s. to be seen as the primary instrument that makes that