Norman Schwartz
“Is it your assessment … that the situation is deteriorating to the point where it probably would require more than just a no-fly zone to reverse the momentum the Gadhafi forces have obtained?” asked McCain, the committee’s most vocal proponent of military intervention.
“Sir, that is exactly my point,” Schwartz responded. “Is a no-fly zone the last step or is it the first step?”
“But your assessment of the battlefield situation of this point, to reverse the momentum …” McCain asked before being interrupted.
“A no-fly zone, sir, would not be sufficient,” Schwartz said.
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“It would undoubtedly require resources in Europe as well as those that are based in the U.S. I would like to say, however, that for me the question is not can we do it, but should we, and if so, how,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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