an obama doctrine? is he really serious about realigning america so groups like nato or even the arab league will have some influence over our foreign policy. he wants to make sure america is not simply going it alone. and i m expecting to hear him explain exactly how the united states will step back and let others step forward. errol louis, thank you, sir. thank you, don. and, again, the president will address the nation about libya tomorrow night. cnn will bring it live to you with coverage starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern. the president speaks at 7:30. another earthquake shakes japan prompting a temporary tsunami alert. the latest on this developing story straight ahead.
our special conk begins at 7:00 eastern, 4:00 pacific time. libya is just one middle east country experiencing unrest. jordan is another. king abdullah said, quote, we are proceeding in earnest with the political reform process, and we have nothing to fear. his comments come two days after government protesters clashed with government loyalists and security forces. dozens of people were injured. bordering jordan to the north, syria, where we could see some changes this week. sources say president bashar al assad will lift a 50-year-old state of emergency very soon. they add he will change the law making his baath party the nation s dominant political party. president assad is expected to address his nation in the next couple of days. and in yemen today, at least 40 people are dead and nearly 100 injured in an explosion at an ammunition factory. security officials say the dead and injured were ransacking the factory after it was taken over by militants.
role with former secretary of state, madeleine albright. madam secretary, thank you so much for joining us. good to be with you, don. much has been made of this conflict and how the united states got involved. i have to ask you, do you think the president handled this properly and should we have intervened? i think he handled it very well, and the reason we intervened is that terrible things were happening on the ground in libya. people were being killed. and gadhafi himself had said that he was going to slaughter everybody. we had international support for it, not only from the europeans, but from the arab league and from a number of countries in the middle east. so that kind of combined international support for this, i think, is very, very important along with the u.n. security council resolution, and the fact that as secretaries clinton and gates and the president have
involved in libya, i was disagrees with secretary clinton and nicolas sarkozy on this. we need to decide why libya is different from syria and iran. really, one of the big basis for this is for humanitarian aid. you can probably make the case that iran needed humanitarian aid. that needs to be made clear. a lot of convolution comes from that. one other point to this, also the arab world asked us to do this. they haven t asked us to do this in syria. we have to be careful without that community asking us to do so. point taken. i know both of you will be back tomorrow after the president s speech. thank you for being here this morning. it should be an interesting
18-year-old adrise was a student studying business. today they are amateur soldiers in the rickety rebel army of libya s opposition. united, they say, by one mission, to topple the regime of moammar gadhafi. i come to benghazi after i saw gadhafi dictator. he kill my people here. he kill libyan people without any reason. i want my country to be free. i want freedom for my country. reporter: reza says the opposition s leadership just as much a hodgepodge as the fighters. 31 people made up of politicians and military leaders who have defected along with those lawyers, doctors and academics. so we want to talk more about the rebels with general wesley clark. general, welcome. thank you. general, you saw a few of these rebels. they are sort of a motley bunch. who are to say some of them aren t as brutal as gadhafi s forces. is that just a risk we take?