u.s. military will no longer be flying strike sortees against gadhafi s armored columns and ground forces. i believe this would be a profound mistake with potentially disastrous consequences. we learned today american aircraft are still being used in strikes against air defense systems and jamming enemy radar, but tank busting planes like these stopped flying missions last week. and qatar and the uae involved in the air effort refused to let their efforts be involved in attacks on gadhafi forces for political reasons back home with. a stalemate on the ground and libyan civilians still suffering in places like misurata and tripoli and elsewhere, is nato doing enough? joining us now from benghazi is ben wedeman. also, retired general mark
way, is in germany at yet another nato meeting, and she is describing exactly what you were talking about, a horrible as ben was talking about, a horrible situation in misurata. people, she said, deliberate attempt to starve people out. so if the mission is going well, as the administration says, then, again, why are the people in misurata in such terrible situation? ben, general kimmett made an interesting point about the kadz military and the gadhafi forces being a learning enemy, that they are that they ve adapted their tactics. the same cannot be said for the opposition forces. they do not seem to be a learning force. reporter: no, no, not at all. in fact, they seem to be learning almost nothing. certainly compared to the gadhafi forces who have changed their tactics completely. initially they were using tanks