captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. it s friday, october 21st. ali s off today. welcome to american morning. it s been a long week. a big week of news. it s been a very long week. i must say, i had a great time in vegas. i know. vegas seems like a year ago. doesn t it? all of the gadhafi news yesterday. you can back from the big debate and the gadhafi news. moammar gadhafi killed in his hometown, captured alive. almost 24 hours after reports he was mortally wounded there is still a fog surrounding exactly how it happened. right. and new videos popping up all over the web showing his final moments. we want to warn you. these videos obviously are graphic. this one showing a badly wounded extremely bloody confused gadhafi being man handled but is clearly alive here. the statement says he was killed in a crossfire. later pictured show his dead body with a bullet wound to his head add close range suggesting he was executed. news of his death
medics from helping the wounded in syria. how exactly is the situation there or in yemen or in bahrain any different from the one in libya? and what do today s tale of two dictators tell us about american foreign policy? joining us now ambassador mark ginsburg and along with aaron miller who spent two decades at the state department advising six different secretaries of state on u.s. policy in the middle east. he is now with the wood row wilson international center and a pleasure to see both of you. aaron, why one and then the other? again, i look at this as two dictato dictators, two murderous dictators and two totally different responses from the united states. we don t need a doctrine. doctrines get americans in trouble. the fact is libya was easier.
what we re seeing in egypt and these other countries is that the people are tired of the experiment being run by one guy for 50 years and everybody s in poverty while he prospers. those systems are failed. in the first half of the 20th century, the experiments failed. in the second half, we ve seen the slow and gradual demise of the small dictatorships. of course, america can t run around and topple these dicta dictato dictators, so we try to fund the ones who are the least destructive. or the one that is agree was. mubarak was just murderous on our behalf. or maybe they become more corrupt and we have to change our policy. that s what happens and in computer systems and other technology system, we see these bottom up power systems of
are linked from the president and the organization and the arm of the security forces that united states alleges has been involved in terrorism. thanks so much for joining us. more on the president s strong words and how foreign tell us is shaping his with the. msnbc analyst and washington bureau chief. this is the director of research and the policy fellow at the brookings commute. good afternoon. i can start with you. the president said when he came in, iran was able to play countries against each other. they have isolated tehran from the world. do you agree with that statement? i do agree. it wasn t really president obama s preferred objective as you recall in his inaugural address. he talked about reaching to those who would unclinch his fist and negotiating with dictato dictators. he would like to think that a more open and multilateral and