being spiked with pills so they would take part in, quote, destruction and sabotage. last night president obama called his french, british, and italian counterparts to discuss the ongoing crisis. according to white house spokesman jay carney, the president expressed deep concern with the use of violence there and discussed ways for the international community to respond. there are no options we re taking off the table, but what we re focused on are the optionç that we can take to affect the situation in the near term. and we would like to see the kind of concerted, broad-based, international action that can compel the libyan government to cease and desist from the kind of actions it s taking against its own people. meanwhile, high winds and heavy seas are still affecting efforts to evacuate foreigners from libya. hundreds of people, mostly americans, are still stuck on a
order troops to psychologically manipulate visiting senators. the article claims that officers in the command of lieutenant general william caldwell pressured soldiers trained in psychological operations to target visiting lawmakers with a propaganda campaign to boost funding for the war. however, one of those soldiers tells nbc news he refused to follow the order, adding, quote, we just flat out drew a line in the sand. still, on msnbc last night, michael hastings, the author of the piece, speculated on the effects of his report. we don t know what the exact impact of the influencing operations were. what we do know is that one of the things that was tasked was after the meetings to go look at the media report afterwards and do other analysis to see what kind of impact that this would influence operation had. but, yeah, i think that one of the more interesting