the burdens with other countries, they spent a lot of time today talking about how we re sharing the costs, but i think as a practical matter, if we re going to have nato involved, the united states needs to step up a little bit more and take a leadership role. i think we can get the turks in the end, but it has been wrangling with the french and british. multi lateralism is not only not easy to say, it is not easy to do, but has great advantages, but it is not as smooth and simple as the united states doing everything as quickly and easily as we d like to. is there any alternative to nato? in this case, i think the alternatives would be a mistake. nato is very close to libya. nato experienced doing this. most of the nato countries are on board, i think it s just taking a little bit too much time. listen to more of what president obama had to say today. land invasion is out of the
maybe it would have been better if the president hadn t said it so loudly. instead of saying why isn t this resolved, why isn t this going smoothly, it doesn t go smoothly if you want to do it with others, it doesn t go smoothly, but it has greater legitimacy, avoids a lot of problems and allows us to share the burden. jamie rubin, thanks for being here. nice to be with you. monday, president obama sent a letter to congress that said by the way, we re going into libya. today, house speaker john boehner as i noted responded with a letter of his own, reading additionally in part i and many other members of the house of representatives are troubled that u.s. military resources were committed to war without clearly defining for the american people, the congress and our troops what the mission in libya is and what america s role is in achieving that mission, a united nations security council resolution does not substitute for a u.s. political and military strategy. joining me now, huf
that speaker put on the floor of congress last week while this libya thing was blowing up. he decided what we should vote on is de-funding national public radio, rather than using the floor to do something important, like bring the republican healthcare to the floor or have legitimate debate on what to do in libya. but he starts ringing his hands about there hasn t been congressional consultation is outrageous, considering he rolled over for eight years of president bush doing much, much worse. congressman, thank you for joining us. thank you, lawrence. a new report shows most american catholics favor gay rights. that shouldn t come as a surprise to anyone that has listened to me about american catholics. that s in tonight s rewrite. first, another republican you ve never heard of announces he is running for president. a new poll puts romney at the top of the list of potential
harder. one of the problems is they want the advantages of burden sharing, in other words, sharing the burdens with other countries, they spent a lot of time today talking about how we re sharing the costs, but i think as a practical matter, if we re going to have nato involved, the united states needs to step up a little bit more and take a leadership role. i think we can get the turks in the end, but it has been wrangling with the french and british. multi lateralism is not only not easy to say, it is not easy to do, but has great advantages, but it is not as smooth and simple as the united states doing everything as quickly and easily as we d like to. is there any alternative to nato? in this case, i think the alternatives would be a mistake. nato is very close to libya. nato experienced doing this. most of the nato countries are on board, i think it s just taking a little bit too much time. listen to more of what president obama had to say
sharing, in other words, sharing the burdens with other countries, they spent a lot of time today talking about how we re sharing the costs, but i think as a practical matter, if we re going to have nato involved, the united states needs to step up a little bit more and take a leadership role. i think we can get the turks in the end, but it has been wrangling with the french and british. multilateralism is not only not easy to say, it is not easy to do, but has great advantages, but it is not as smooth and simple as the united states doing everything as quickly and easily as we d like to. is there any alternative to nato? in this case, i think the alternatives would be a mistake. nato is very close to libya. nato experienced doing this. most of the nato countries are on board, i think it s just taking a little bit too much time. listen to more of what president obama had to say today.