highlighted are still shots from the weapon systems video. benghazi is not complete safe from the attack but under less threat than it was yesterday and suffering from isolation and good deal of confusion. next slide, please. you can see here basically lay down of how we see the battle space today with the regime forces more pressed and less free to maneuver before operations commenced we now have the capability to patrol the airspace over libya, shifting to more consistent and persistent air presence. as the mullen reported, the no-fly zone is effectively in place. let me conclude, this is an international effort designed to enforce a u.n. mandate and since i spoke to you last the coalition has been joined by forces from spain, belgium, denmark and qatar. the united states is militarily in the lead but general hamm is
december. heather: when you see the markets fluctuate according to large events, whether they be domestic or international, what affect does it have if any when you have so many events at once going on? the markets are going to be leading indicator, to be a fortune teller in a sense, priced in all of these things. it has been much more reactive of late. but has taken a positive stance toward japan. pretty positive stance to libya. i think the market does want to go up but we have been going up for a while. so if we see us going down, it doesn t necessarily mean the fundamentals are all that bad. heather: thank you so much. gregg: muammar khadafy fighting to retain power in libya.
through a negotiation or through a defeat. and, there are no ties on this one. this one we have to get right, because we chose, quite consciously, to commit american prestige, british and french prestige, against a guy who frankly, right now, doesn t have a lot of support. gregg: but, mr. miller, if you listen carefully to president obama s stated objective, it is to protect the libyan people and not to remove qaddafi, though the president had said over the course of the last month, that, you know, we have to get qaddafi out of there. let me quote from him yesterday. we are not going to use force to go well beyond a well-defined goal, specifically, the protection of civilians in libya. is the removal of qaddafi getting lost in the translation? why in the world would you ever announce to the world that you will not go after qaddafi? yes. that i think was unfortunate, whether or not we are targeting tripoli or targeting his
headquarters or not, we don t have to confirm the fact that at least today, we re not. i mean, you want to keep a certain measure of uncertainty, particularly in the minds of the libyans and gregg: has the president changed his mind about removing qaddafi? it would appear so. i don t think he changed his mind. i think that the kind of war we are fighting with the kind of allies we have, impose certain constraints on what we are prepared to do. the american people may well impose certain constraints on what we re prepared to do. 74% of those polled, day before yesterday, thought libya should be left to somebody else. so, the reality is, we don t have what is required right now, to guarantee what is our ultimate objective. which is must be qaddafi s removal. gregg: secretary clinton said yesterday that we are in close contact with rebel forces, should we recognize as this french have already done the main libyan opposition which,
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