general mattis, greece.i'm hopeful that you can help provide us a little bit of focus in terms of how we're going to approach similar situations in the future. not long after 9/11 a coalition of afghan forces assisted by a handful of special operators or controllers kicked out the taliban in a matter of a few weeks. we were the enablers, for lack of a better term, not the instruments or the creators of societal change in the evolution. we took a different approach in iraq. we are taking different approach to date in afghanistan. we have undertaken a duty, i understand what i recall the concept of negligence in the long want to undertake a duty if you don't see it all the way through you are guilty of negligence. at the same time we need to really start looking at the future in terms of how we're going to use our military. secretary gates made a speech, i'm sure you're aware of it, at west point recently, indicating that in his view these troops have the concept is not a model, troop a the concept, pretty muc

antonio, carina, marco, keiko, menrage, naream, sherry, matty, aaron, lisa. and that's it. >> president mendoza, i'm wondering because i have a feeling that the public comment is for the general petition renewal for the final vote, would it be appropriate for me to read the amended language of the resolution at this point? president mendoza: sure. it would be good to know what we're voting on. >> so your white packet, the cover and the second page of that is the amended language of the resolution that i'll read it into the record. superintendent's recommendation regarding city arts and technology high school, number 112-22 sp 1, authorization to grant the renewal petition for city arts and technology high school. whereas san francisco unified school district is a charter authorizer for city arts and technology high school which is set to expire on june 30, 2011 and whereas pursuant to the education code, the petitioner submitted on january 31, 2011, to the district, a charter renewal petition for the renewal of the charter school's petition, and, and i'm goin

general mattis, who is in charge of the central command, is a werewolf.he's a good friend of mine, but that guy is scary. and i'll be amazed if general mattis doesn't take some action against pirates in a way that will cause everyone's head to spin sometime in the next few months. but we have to recognize we can't have all our forces in afghanistan. we have other uses for these forces. but i think we have enough that we can keep it going. i thank you all very much for spending all this time with me on a rainy night. thank you. [applause] >> bing west, the the author of several books, served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs during the reagan administration. for more on bing west and his work, visit bingwest.com. >> booktv has 48 hours of nonfiction authors and book programming every weekend on saturday from 8 a.m. to monday morning at 8 eastern. to get the complete weekend schedule e-mailed to you every week, sign up for the booktv alert at booktv.org or text the word book to 99702, standard message and data rates apply.

general james mattis who commands u.s. forces in the middle east, cautioned that patrolling libyan airspace would require knocking out libyan air defense missiles on the ground. >> no illusions here it would be a military operation. it wouldn't simply be telling people not to fly airplanes. >> reporter: the u.s. military knows all about no-fly zones. it ran them for ten years over iraq but it still took an invasion to get rid of that dictator. katie? >> couric: and david, is secretary gates concerned about all the turmoil in the middle east and what it might mean for u.s. security interests there? >> reporter: actually, he called it an extraordinary setback for al qaeda. if the people of the middle east can get rid of these repressive regimes on their own, who needs al qaeda? >> couric: all right. david martin reporting from the pentagon tonight. rebel forces control eastern libya including benghazi. mandy clark is there tonight and mandy, the opposition is mostly civilian, but it's more than held its own against forces lo

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about it rumors swirling around now we have you know the libyans are calling for one but as general mattis said today you know this isn't just telling planes not to fly this would be a military operation and it's a serious military operation it wouldn't heal probably stationing two aircraft carriers of the coast of libya two aircraft carriers are now on their way to the mediterranean and using planes for military bases in italy and it would require destroying targets on the ground radar stations air defense batteries and continuous overflight that might also entailed challenging libyan planes that tried to defy the no fly zone and of possibly shooting them down it could also entailed military u.s. military aircraft being shot down and u.s. soldiers being put at risk so it's a serious undertaking and that's why it was an obama administration is really considering its options and taking its time so this is this will be putting lives at risk like you said this is a military operation often what we keep hearing right now too is that we don't want this to become iraq or afghanistan or repeat of

used military force and frankly we have a career military people and secretary gates also general mattis and others they've been. why don't spoke of gears saying that there is irresponsible talk in the media about this kind of people need to understand that if you're going to use or no fly zone it's going to start with an attack on the air defense assets of the country in question and that no matter how you cut it that's an act of war under international law so it's not something to be played too lightly once or the u.s. experience with no prize owns hasn't been great and we go back and look at the no fly zone that was opened up in the north of iraq of ninety ninety two would maintain there for many many years we actually only had two aircraft taken out in that entire action and they were american aircraft helicopters that were mistaken for rocky aircraft and shot down with the loss of more than twenty american lives so then why is this being a thrown around as so lightly or perhaps irresponsibly like you mentioned i mean let's be honest i asked this question yesterday i ask it again doe

like that we had it is useless that we have is that why was uncovered well yes selectively edited it mattie finish the sentence please you're going to you're always wrong because you had it was uncovered by the blaze which is which is glenn beck's web site blaze but better scott baker said and this is a. and it's not out of context he said if you look at two at the two hours in total you largely get the impression that these are pretty they seem to be fairly balanced people trying to do a fairly good job instead of jailing people photographing how as if we're going to jail somebody shouldn't we be jailing somebody trying to destroy other people's lives the game james o'keefe is doing with the media every day to sarah palin or michele bachmann or any of those men or whatever i mean i don't think frankly that there should be any of these laws and i see no idea oh i agree. the lawyers that we know about this was florida and illinois or iowa or some some of the midwest i think it was either redundant or ridiculous you shouldn't break it down or shouldn't trust pass but i think it may right now

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central command, marine general james mattis, said enforcing it would be challenging. >> you would have to remove air defense capability in order to establish a no-fly zone. no illusions here, it would be a military operation. it wouldn't just be telling people not to fly airplanes. >> woodruff: the idea of imposing curbs on libyan air space drew a sharply negative response today in moscow. the russian foreign minister said any such action would be "a serious mistake" unless the u.n. approves it first. >> brown: still to come on the newshour, moving towards a deal on spending cuts; assessing public versus private sector pay; and today's supreme court rulings. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the president of yemen is now accusing the u.s. of instigating protests against his rule. president ali abdullah saleh has been a u.s. ally, but he charged today the white house is directing the unrest from an operations room in israel. a u.s. state department spokesman denied that charge. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people staged the largest pro

i could also to the admiral, this morning on capitol hill, centcom commander general mattis said enforcing a no-fly zone would involve u.s. military operations in taking out air defense systems before the fly zones could be enforced. is that the case of the u.s. military to have to actually launch airstrikes before those no-fly zones can be effectively enforced. >> first of all, all of the options beyond the humanitarian assistance and evacuation are complex and there is a second and a second-order consequences. i think derive from the fact they are complex. and for example, if we move additional assets, what are the consequences of that for afghanistan, for the persian gulf? and what other allies are prepared to work with us and some of these things? i think those are some of the effects we have to think about. we also have to think about, frankly, the use of the u.s. military in another country in the middle east. so i think were sensitive about all of these things, but we will provide the president of the full range of options. >> and with respect to the no-fly zone specifically, it is

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that has, the endorsement of general mattis and the secretary, but it also has a recognition from all of us that there is a sustainability issue. >> right. >> and that is what policymakers have to grapple with. again, it's my job to state requirements and to do so forthrightly, and that's what i've tried to do. it is the job of others then to determine whether those requirements can be adequately resourced and what the long-term sustainment implications are as well. >> and that's what we end up shooting back to us here many congress. secretary flournoy, i don't think that you are, i don't think the administration's talking enough about the long-term relationship that we will have with afghanistan. there's only, you know, in recent memory there's only one country that we've been involve with the with that we then left alone, and that was afghanistan. and so i think it's important to put this strategic relationship in context, and i want you to talk a little bit about specifically what this administration and what the karzai administration believes would be the element of a relationship

want to thank his gorgeous and extraordinary family who is standing here, mona, emily, dylan and mattie. it is always tough to move families. emily just turned 14 today so i was talking to her. i assured her it would be great 10 years from now. right now, it's probably a drag. but i'm absolutely confident that this is -- we could not have better representation of the united states of america in this critical relationship than we are going to get from the lockse family, and gary, i wish you all the luck in beijing. >> thank you, mr. president. and i'm deeply humbled and honored to be chosen as your next ambassador to china. my grandfather first came to america to work as a house boy for a family in the state of washington in exchange for english lessons. and he went back to china, had a family. so my father was also born in china and came over as a teenager a few years later. he enlisted in the united states army before the outbreak of world war ii and became part of that greatest generation and saw normandy and berlin and came back to seattle to raise a family. my father never imagined

but we heard in response to similar kinds of questions from general mattis about the effort he is makingo really implement the kind of preventive measures on the battlefield to reach out to the gunny who says to the corporal, you're not going out tomorrow, we're just in concussive incident. and because you have such great men and women who are so eager to return to the battlefield, i think it may be more than just medical science or the gold -- it's part of the culture. >> it is. with traumatic brain injury in particular. this is, again, essentially an accumulation of concussions in some cases. and again, can be unseen. trooper wants to suit up, no one wants to leave his or her fellow members behind if they're going outside the wire. we have had to institute procedures to allow them a break, a recuperative period just as frankly we are finding i guess in the football and other violent or very contact sports is needed, as well, to allow recovery before exposure of further such injury. >> i want to thank you for your testimony. my time has expired, and others will fall on this issue and ot