crimes. there are armed supplies that can be opened up. there are humanitarian interventions that can be eng e engaged in. in the long run, gadhafi is doomed. he account no survive completely isolated when the arab league has turned against him. in the short run he has huge military advantages over the rebels. so what we re trying to do here, what the white house is trying to do is figure out how to blunt the short-term military advantages while maintaining the pressure that makes in the long run the outcome preordained. gadhafi will not be running libya five years from now or two years for now. the question is, two weeks for now and a month from now, what do you do to make sure he doesn t slaughter civilian miss the process? when we were having the conversation about mubarak, we had the sense the egyptian military, which has a long standing relationship with the united states and other governments that the egyptian military would play a key role