and so i don t see how you really could support this from the beginning given the track record that president obama has had in so many other areas. how did you have any confidence from the beginning that this would ever work out right? there is a difference between having confidence in obama, which no sane person could possibly have at this point and believing that it was the right thing to act against muammar qaddafi. the terrorist chief dom who killed more americans than any other al qaeda who sits on the largest oil reserves in africa. slaughtering his own people. had we not done something, however ineptly obama may have done it, it would have stopped arab awakening in its tracks. let s remember, laura, not so long ago when we conservatives were calling on the world to rise up. freedom and democracy. laura: a lot of people are looking at that experience and thinking maybe we should learn a little bit from that i think a lot of people are doing that public opinion is not for the
protesters in the street and what we re not doing to manage the situation in yemen so we have a domino effect across the middle east. it s much more complicated and a lot more on the line here. are you arguing because we didn t act in iran we should have acted in libya? laura: i don t think now with what we have in our plate that this was a smart move. i think because france and britain comes to us and says we really want to do this stuff, so what if france and britain come to us. it has to be the general said it was not a vital interest to our country. yeah. and people can differ. laura: the general said that. big deal, general? laura: is he a commander officer of this effort. look, there are. laura: he knows you and i do i would presume. not necessarily. i have dealt with plenty of generals and they speak in generalities and that s why they call them generals. i don t think it would be the right thing to let terrorist chief dom, busher of americans, muammar qaddaf
protesters in the street and what we re not doing to manage the situation in yemen so we have a domino effect across the middle east. it s much more complicated and a lot more on the line here. are you arguing because we didn t act in iran we should have acted in libya? laura: i don t think now with what we have in our plate that this was a smart move. i think because france and britain comes to us and says we really want to do this stuff, so what if france and britain come to us. it has to be the general said it was not a vital interest to our country. yeah. and people can differ. laura: the general said that. big deal, general? laura: is he a commander officer of this effort. look, there are. laura: he knows you and i do i would presume. not necessarily. i have dealt with plenty of generals and they speak in generalities and that s why they call them generals. i don t think it would be the right thing to let terrorist chief dom, busher of americans, muammar qaddaf
protesters in the street and what we re not doing to manage the situation in yemen so we have a domino effect across the middle east. it s much more complicated and a lot more on the line here. are you arguing because we didn t act in iran we should have acted in libya? laura: i don t think now with what we have in our plate that this was a smart move. i think because france and britain comes to us and says we really want to do this stuff, so what if france and britain come to us. it has to be the general said it was not a vital interest to our country. yeah. and people can differ. laura: the general said that. big deal, general? laura: is he a commander officer of this effort. look, there are. laura: he knows you and i do i would presume. not necessarily. i have dealt with plenty of generals and they speak in generalities and that s why they call them generals. i don t think it would be the right thing to let terrorist chief dom, busher of americans, muammar qaddaf
and so i don t see how you really could support this from the beginning given the track record that president obama has had in so many other areas. how did you have any confidence from the beginning that this would ever work out right? there is a difference between having confidence in obama, which no sane person could possibly have at this point and believing that it was the right thing to act against muammar qaddafi. the terrorist chief dom who killed more americans than any other al qaeda who sits on the largest oil reserves in africa. slaughtering his own people. had we not done something, however ineptly obama may have done it, it would have stopped arab awakening in its tracks. let s remember, laura, not so long ago when we conservatives were calling on the world to rise up. freedom and democracy. laura: a lot of people are looking at that experience and thinking maybe we should learn a little bit from that i think a lot of people are doing that public opinion is not for the