the election because we are pretty much there. will it help or hurt president obama? it largely depends on how this military action turns out, bill. if it has a relatively successful conclusion, if qaddafi steps down if it s relatively bloodless, if the president is willing to keep the coalition of the willing on board and get some sort of transitional interrim government and peaceful and not muslim brotherhood if it doesn t slip into being a al qaeda safe haven. it will help him. all signs look like it s not going to play out that way. bill: i don t see it that way. i don t know what s going to happen. i don t see armageddon ahead for the u.s.a. obama is never going to put ground troops in there under any circumstance. not going to do that. remember, bill, it s far easier for the united states to initiate military action than to get out. bill: why? they just stop flying. when you showed those poll numbers. it s hard for the american people to get behind the
we re more in the wars than we ve ever been and gitmo is still there. i got a feeling he was taken to the woodshed. you mention rwanda. and it s scandalous that people didn t get in as soon asser than they did. millions died as a result. when you see what s apparently about to happen in benghazi and libya where it appeared gadhafi was about to slaughter possibly hundreds of thousands of his own people, is there not a humanitarian duty like countries like america to prevent that if you can? yeah. but i think you have to go maybe on the perspective that it has to the first shot has to be fired first. it was being fired. he was killing people. oh, he was? well, then sure. obviously there should be an intervention of some sort. but why is it always the united states? it s not. it s nato as well. you ve got an alliance of countries. why are you laughing? the coalition of the willing?
the election because we are pretty much there. will it help or hurt president obama? it largely depends on how this military action turns out, bill. if it has a relatively successful conclusion, if qaddafi steps down if it s relatively bloodless, if the president is willing to keep the coalition of the willing on board and get some sort of transitional interrim government and peaceful and not muslim brotherhood if it doesn t slip into being a al qaeda safe haven. it will help him. all signs look like it s not going to play out that way. bill: i don t see it that way. i don t know what s going to happen. i don t see armageddon ahead for the u.s.a. obama is never going to put ground troops in there under any circumstance. not going to do that. remember, bill, it s far easier for the united states to initiate military action than to get out. bill: why? they just stop flying. when you showed those poll numbers. it s hard for the american