air? it s tricky, difficult, i think it s crucial that the west, the world finally stopped gadhafi. imagine if he had taken over the whole country, was full of drunk on his victory. this is someone who is, you know, ordered terrorist attacks on americans, this is someone who has tried to build nuclear weapons. we don t want to formally mad dog dictator to become a mad dog dicta dictator. that s dangerous to us. he holds the west back. his language this morning was he s going to send humanitarian aid into benghazi. and everything s changed from i m going to slaughter you to now i m going to help you. if he cannot provoke the west, then maybe he holds on to his power at this point and maybe this moment has been lost to get him out of well, i think there s two issues. one is, would he succeed, take over the country, conduct the slaughter in benghazi? it appears as if we have
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of the constitution. then the other issue is whether or not you should seek authorization at this point under the war powers act. i think the war powers act is pretty clear that the president has 60 days. but there s a third level, and that s the level i talked about earlier, and that is building the necessary public support for something as serious as military action. and that s where you need to be more inclusive early on to build your case. you know, it wasn t until i think yesterday that i finally had a conversation with a high-level person at the dod that really sort of walked me through what their thinking was in the days and in the couple of weeks building up to this, and obviously this is something we ve been talking about for a while, but there are lots of difficulties with proceeding military in libya, what was the purpose, where are we going, i think that needs to be better explained and understood. but it is worth pointing out that the actions over the weekend stopped gadha