communi communion. he has the mental capacity of a six-year-old, and apparently the priest denied him communion because he doesn t have sufficient knowledge of christ. the boy s family believes he is being discriminated against because he has special needs. congressional leaders want more pressure put on tripoli to stop the bloodshed in libya. with the number of casualties growing, some say it s time for nato to go after muammar gadhafi s inner circle. listen to what lindsey graham and joe lieberman had to say on state of the union. it s my belief that it s going to be hard for america s security interests to survive intact in they stay. it s good to have the u.n. involved, but the goal is to get rid of gadhafi. a stealemate is ensuing and the only thing i know to make this
in yemen, there have been terrorist attacks planned against the united states. so the u.s. is really hoping that this transition in yemen, that it s finally come around to the fact that president sala looks like he is going to go. they want to see if they can manage it so that counter-terrorism cooperation doesn t get interrupted. so it sounds like the u.s. is really complicated here about what to address first. does it also have something to do with the u.s. waiting to see what other country might take the lead? well, i think everyone always looks to the united states to lead, and we ve seen in libya that on one hand the u.s. is saying, we re going to be in this partnership, we re going to help lead this partnership, but we re going to take a backseat on the military, and it s kind of like the world has this psychological view that they re looking for the united states to lead. so on one hand, don t want the united states to go it alone, on the other hand, what are we doing withou
right now? i think there is different levels of concern for different reasons. libya, there are u.s. troops involved, so they re concerned about the military and they re also concerned about the lives facing muammar gadhafi. but as we heard, even from secretary gates, libya is not vital to the united states, and some say as libya goes, so does libya. these other issues like syria and yemen, far more u.s. security interests. you ve heard the response about getting rid of president asad, whether they should say it s time for him to go, that s because they re very scared of what comes after him. his allies have really been a minority, and you can see the kind of similar situation as we had in iraq where sectarian tensions boil over, the opposition really isn t very well organized, so it s kind of like the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don t know. and in yemen, serious u.s. concerns about al-qaeda and the arab peninsula in the country.
thing survive is to put pressure on tripoli. the military commanders in tripoli supporting gadhafi should be pounded. i would not let the u.n. mandate stop what is the right thing to do. i think every time we pull back, it says to gadhafi that he can tough this out, and i want him to feel that we re just going to squeeze and squeeze until he decides it s time to go, because that s the only end that will be meaningful here. all right, so it s not just libya. take a look right here. syria and yemen all on the map of concern here and vying for international attention. right now there is plenty of violence and unrest in each of those nations. so which of those countries should concern the u.s. the most? for answers let s bring in cnn s state department producer, elise lambert. what is the greatest concern
to go into libya, and they think it s healthy for the europeans to see what it s like to lead. the u.s. is leading in iraq, the u.s. is leading in afghanistan, and the rest of the world knows if they re not going to pick up the slack, the u.s. is going to do it. the u.s. is saying, okay, you try to see what it s like to be a leader. so does this say something about the u.s. s white house strategy on foreign policy, or is this really a result of a ripple effect? you have problems in one country in this region and it ripple to see its neighbor? they re trying to deal with so many issues, fred, at once and trying to juggle so many countries. it s kind of like that game at the carnival, whack-a-mole. where are the violations the strongest? where is the community? the u.s. is trying to ride that wave by trying to balance its