germany. i think it s safe to say hitler is no longer a threat. the taliban no longer controls the government. the government now wants us out. we can t babysit their country forever without a clear military goal and equally clear means to achieve t. our troops don t glove there. this from michael. we determine thad we need to deal with the people that attacked us and put all our focus and fire power into iraq, wants nothing to do with 9/11. now we re focused on a real issue. finish the job and then come home. keep the conversation going, facebook.com/cnn. i ll be back with you in 15 minutes. i have breaking political news that i want to share with the viewers. getting confirmation that senator john carey, a democrat from massachusetts, we re told that he plans to go to pakistan soon. a source said wednesday, senator john kerry preparing to go to
he is wrong when says we shut get more deeply involved and in fact should take out qaddafi and i would also like your reaction to the missile strike overnight that allegedly killed some of qaddafi s family. we were not attacked by qaddafi and we also have no vial american national interest in libya. those are the two rerequisites for the military entry. he couldn t state what our military goal is. what in the world are we doing in the libya if we don t know what the military goal is and if we still aren t sure about who the opposition forces are. chris: you mean the rebels. what possible benefit could there be for the united states if in fact we could potentially be benefiting al-qaeda of north africa for hezbollah which is a strong likelihood? this would be a terrible mistake for this reason. because if we give al-qaeda of north africa access to sustained revenues from oil
we should get more deeply involved and should take out qaddafi and i d like your reaction to the missile strike overnight, that apparently killed some of qaddafi s family. remember, defense secretary gates said, we were not attacked by qaddafi nor were we threatened attacks and he said we have no vital national american interests in libya and those are the to two prerequisites for u.s. military entry and he was later asked what our military goal was in libya and he couldn t state what it was. what in the world are we doing in libya if we don t know what our military goal is, and, if we still aren t sure about who the opposition force are? what possible you mean the rebels. what possible benefit could there be for the united states, if in fact we could potentially be benefiting al qaeda of north africa or hezbollah, which is a strong likelihood? this would be a terrible mistake for this reason. because, if we give al qaeda of north africa, asked us to sustain revenues from oil t
seven sons, tli grandchildren as well. that s not the pr offensive you want. do you think that the president is stuck between two objectives, one of which he articulated, he said moammar gadhafi must go? he stated that very clearly, but he also was very clear about saying we are not our military goal is not to remove this leader. we re taking other actions to try to get rid of the leader. it s a really tough situation. let s keep in mind nato has said this was a strike on a command and control center, a military center. we still don t know exactly what happened there, so i want to be cautious about jumping to any conclusions. there was a body bag shown there. it has not been identified outside of just libyan government officials, so we do need to keep that in mind. if the u.s. were to expand its
therefore i think the use of our predator drones which have extraordinary capabilities was the right thing to do and i thank president obama s commander in chief for authorizing that to happen. are we still in it with one foot as both senator mccain and senator graham believe? yeah, it s probably a foot and a half. look, the initial decision to go into libya by united nations, nato, the united states, the arab league, was the right decision. because gadhafi was really slaughtering his own people. but from the beginning, we ve had a half-in, half-out feeling to this effort, particularly the gap between our political goal which was to have gadhafi go and our military goal which seemed to say that that wasn t what we were going to do militarily. and i agree with john mccain