administration certainly for now decided that is not a good thing to do. it s not going to go in there and take over libya, which might end up not being one country pretty soon. muammar gaddafi doesn t have control over the entire area of libya. the statement was example of how few options, though he is considering the full range of them, the united states really has. bret: charles? there were a couple of oddities in the statement. the idea of sending the u.s. secretary of state to geneva to the u.n. human rights council, one of the most illegitimate and absurd bodies on the planet, as an example of the absurdity is libya sits on it. libya which is now engaging in huge atrocities is a member of the human rights council. body, i ll add, the bush administration refused sitting on because its illegitimacy and absurdity of having human
future. regardless of the immediate outcome of the current struggle. bret: 1.8 million-barrels a day come out of libya roughly. that effects, as we have seen, world oil prices. eventually the u.s. economy, steve. yeah. you have to keep in consideration all of those things. the administration said that s one thing they are worried about monitoring and they talked about the number of americans in country. if you take a step back and look at the way the president made the statement, a what is the take-away this projects weakness. it suggests we re impotent. mara is right to a certain extent that we are limited in what we have. but this seems it was an opportunity for the united states to say people in the region, particularly to the people in libya, we re with you, we are not going to let your dictator kill you, strife you with military planes, especially when you had the test moanny of senior officials, dip testimony of senior officials, diplomat and
at the hands of muammar gaddafi. let s bring in the panel. steve hayes, senior writer for national public radio. mara liasson from national public radio and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. steve, a response? if muammar gaddafi was thinking that there was a strong possibility that united states might consider bombing or a strong action to prevent him from doing what his government has been doing for the past three or four days, this statement did very little to suggest to him that that is still an eventuality or a possibility. besides saying the team is going to prepare full range of options he said we re sending hillary clinton to geneva to have a bunch of meetings. what is the president talking about doing? it suggests the situation on the ground is more urgent than the president s words made it seem. bret: mara, the full range of options. i mean. the full range of options which means everything, including military action.
continued instability in the future. regardless of the immediate outcome of the current struggle. bret: 1.8 million-barrels a day come out of libya roughly. that effects, as we have seen, world oil prices. eventually the u.s. economy, steve. yeah. you have to keep in consideration all of those things. the administration said that s one thing they are worried about monitoring and they talked about the number of americans in country. if you take a step back and look at the way the president made the statement, a what is the take-away this projects weakness. it suggests we re impotent. mara is right to a certain extent that we are limited in what we have. but this seems it was an opportunity for the united states to say people in the region, particularly to the people in libya, we re with you, we are not going to let your dictator kill you, strife you with military planes, especially when you had the test moanny of senior officials, dip testimony of
but it seems that the administration certainly for now decided that is not a good thing to do. it s not going to go in there and take over libya, which might end up not being one country pretty soon. muammar gaddafi doesn t have control over the entire area of libya. the statement was example of how few options, though he is considering the full range of them, the united states really has. bret: charles? there were a couple of oddities in the statement. the idea of sending the u.s. secretary of state to geneva to the u.n. human rights council, one of the most illegitimate and absurd bodies on the planet, as an example of the absurdity is libya sits on it. libya which is now engaging in huge atrocities is a member of the human rights council. body, i ll add, the bush administration refused sitting on because its illegitimacy