strikes had, massive craters next to overturned tanks. the opposition doesn t have the equipment to have defeated the tanks that was literally raining down on them. if you think about what is taking place further westward, next major city is gadhafi s hometown. we were just speaking with one opposition fighter who was a colonel in gadhafi s army. he defected once the uprising began. he was telling us they do expect it to be a very tough and bloody battle. all right. arwa dame oon, we appreciate yo. people are calling on preb president obama to speak to the u.s. citizens about what is going on in libya. he is expected to do that tomorrow night in washington scheduled for 7:30 p.m. eastern time. cnn, of course, will cover that for you live. to give you an update about what is happening in yemen as
i tend to favor this type of joint approach. i think bob kagan and john negroponte made points that are worth reiterating, you could have a situation where gadhafi complies with the u.n. resolution. you could then have an awkward situation where the opposition doesn t then what does the united states and world do? if he does, it s quite possible you will need boots on the ground to separate the sides and the last thing you want in the name of humanitarian intervention is a prolonged civil war. whose boots? the president has said we want to get rid of the regime, which i think was mistake because it makes it harder to add the diplomatic intervention. then he ruled out american boots. you ll probably need european fwoots they are willing to put them there. possibly some arab or
zone, and by that i mean, those patrol flights that fly around basically making sure that moammar gadhafi doesn t put any airplanes in the air, that the opposition doesn t get into the air, that there are no surface-to-air missiles being fired. that job. now, the u.s. hasn t been doing that. what they have been doing is going after a lot of moammar gadhafi s forces on the ground. ajdabiya, they hit just yesterday with a major air strike by some jets going after some of his tanks and heavy armor. and what we re hearing is that you might even see more of those attack-style aircraft come into play for the u.s. drones, special gun ships that can flip at low altitude at night. specifically designed to look for specific ground targets. all right. chris lawrence for us this morning. chris, we appreciate the update. a lot more information to come out on this. a lot of people, as you know, have been calling on the president to step up and say something, be a lot more clear
american intervention, different american intervention? i think what the arabs generally in public opinion, i would say the majority of the public opinion in the arab world wants is for the united states to act consistently, to act according to the rule of law and with legitimacy is active in this region and the will of the majority and protection of minority rights. would you say at a gut level, do people want the united states to help the libyan people? i m going to say the people, because it seems a vast majority of them want to oust gahdafi? it s a difficult question that doesn t have a straight answer. they want the outside world to help, including the united states, if the libyans ask for it. clearly there, is a legitimate way for the u.s. to do this, but they don t want it to be unilaterally done by the united states. what does this look like from cairo? i think there are different levels of intervention that
challenges at hand. you see a dark nationalism that grows, because of both a frustration that japan isn t hitting its mark and at the same time a frustration that the the paralysis that has dominated the political system is keeping japan from being the kind of nation it is. and there is a minority that takes this to the extreme. this could take us in dramatically different directions. radically different directions in japanese political circles. and, briefly, are you optimistic that this could be the shock to the system that produces some action? it does bring out a lot of solidarity among the people and also basically to the political system to see that opposition doesn t exist. this is almost like when the terrorist attack hit the united states. we can put politics aside for a moment. very difficult to transform the structural side of the japanese issues.