would you strike the brigades? i would go ahead and strike those brigades. should the u.s. launch air strikes against the brigades? this is now a nato mission. but fay toe won t do it with turkey and germany. s you well know. i wouldn t say that at this time. you don t know. there seems to be over the past 24 to 48 hours, senator, a really decline in air strikes pounding of libyan gadhafi positions. well, the key to this, and has been from the beginning, it begins an ends with gadhafi. i think his minister defecting in great britain is helpful. hopefully others will follow suit. i think we ll see in the next couple of days. this is the first day nato has been in charge. we ll see how they do. many military missions can be