people asked him to bend a little to the protesters, okay, i will lift this emergency law that s been in place for 40 years. he basically said none of it. just the opposite. megyn: he said, i will not be forced into doing anything. and now new protests are reported and there are questions about whether the united states is doing the right thing in going into syria and completely ignoring excuse me, libya, and ignoring syria. this is the problem with president obama s decision to go into libya on humanitarian grounds. if it s only humanitarian grounds, why not syria, why not yemen, why not ivory coast, why not sudan? even secretary of defense gates said it s not strictly humanitarian. it s not clear that we know what we re doing in libya.
are we going to have to go into different places? what makes libya different than the hot spots there and the unrest in those countries? you know, alex, i m glad you asked that question, because i don t see a distinction. i think that we went into this thing at the request of this notional international request, which was pushed primarily by the europeans because their interests there are far greater than ours. they get much more oil out of libya than we do. anfothlawode rbiesaow always be there with our military capabilities. now they need military capabilities that they don t have, and they have had to go to the united states and we rushed in to bail them out. i m one who is opposed to the u.s. involvement in this no-fly zone. so why libya? why not syria, why not yemen, why not bahrain, why not jordan?
tripoli, say in another 30 days, can they maintain what they have accomplished without u.s., nato, this international coalition support? no, i don t think they can. as a matter of fact, again, i say gadhafi can hire surrogate forces to continue this fight for a very long time with 39 to 40 billion dollars in his coffers. he has what he needs to continue the fight. now, i think that if the coalition continues to do what it s doing right now, it s going to be very difficult for him to have control of anything other than libya. i mean tripoli. having said that, i think ultimately as one of your previous guests said, i think ultimately his own people will turn on him, because they ll realize that they have no way out either other than ridding the country of gadhafi himself. you re speaking of christopher dickey s interview there. okay. yemen, syria, bahrain, jordan.
in tripoli, then it s a whole different ball game. and they know that as well. all right, jim maceda in tripoli, thank you, jim. let s go now to seyria wher there s word 12 people have been killed. the government says the victims include security forces and residents. this amateur video obtained by the associated press was allegedly shot on friday. it shows protesters trying to topple a statue of former president hafez assad. moving in yemen, president saleh is warning of a destructive civil war. he says he is willing to step aside in a peaceful transition of power, though demonstrators want him out right now. operators at the crippled fukushima power plant in japan first said water in one unit had radioactive levels 10 million times higher than normal but now they say those readings were a mistake. charles hadlock is covering the situation for us in seoul, south korea. good evening, charles. what are officials say about this mistake and how it came about? a worker took a been a
leader, action needs to be taken there. i think that again, we have to appreciate that the conflict in libya is not something that we entered to lightly. we were very deliberate in staging how we went into that conflict. gregg: more people have been massacred in the congo. the congo doesn t have oil, does it? i m not going to go there, but i will tell you this. gregg: i went there. when you look at the tremendous level of unrest that s taking place in the middle east right now, things have been developing there rapidly over the past several months as we well know. and it was imperative that the united states, as part of an international coalition, go into libya to make sure that we gregg: why not yemen, bahrain and syria? the problem becomes, if that s the precedent, you open up a lot of nations, a lot of countries where you can make the same argument. gregg: adam