bill: impact segment tonight, the group human rights watch heavily invested in making sure people all over the world are not abused. as you may know the u.n. directive allows action against libya in order to protect civilians from qaddafi s goons. joining us from washington the director of the middle east and north african rights. do you support the military action on behalf of the civilians in libya? what we support are actions taken by the international community to protect civilians. obviously the international community has used a variety of means to try to do that including military action. we recognize there is a great interest in protecting the civil yaps of libya from qaddafi s forces and so we think it s a positive measure that the international community is taking direct action to uphold responsibility. bill: that s interesting. human rights watch doesn t have any beef with this action because you do truly believe that civilians were in danger from qaddafi. why do you b
americans being killed in berlin, germany by terrorists. mr. reagan said this. when our citizens are abused or attacked, anywhere in the world, on the direct orders of a hostile regime, we will respond so long as i am in this oval office. self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty. bill: so the question becomes is, it the obligation of every american president to do what president reagan did. joining us from washington fox news political analyst charles krauthammer. so, it s this is a tough one, you know, because you get qaddafi. we know he was responsible for the lockerbie bombing. but, the u.s. let it go. we maintained relations with him, you know, and all of that. and i m saying to myself, if i m president, don t i have a responsibility to avenge the deaths of americans at the hands of a tyrant like this? well, i think there are a lot of different cases. amend the case we are talking about where reagan did retaliate is a clear attack on americans and a clear retaliat
hostage is a tough case. qaddafi has a price on his head because of what he did in 1988. if in the course of this war we kill him it, will be justice. bill: okay. charles, thanks very much. pinheads and patriots in a moment tonight starring deer city alley dancing a little bit on national tv. right back with p and p.
charged with terrorism. and he hasn t been. two is i believe there was a political resolution to the panam lockerbie case that the u.s. and a number of european countries accepted. bill: that was a civil judgment. that was civil. on behalf of the plaintiffs. bill: what s the difference between go ahead. one of the reasons why the u.s., of course, resumed its relations with libya. bill: i know. wasn t a decision at the highest level. in any event, what you are asking is a separate issue which is what to do with terrorists. that answer is to try them, to prosecute them, and to put them in jail. bill: i hope that s what happens to qaddafi. he definitely is a terrorist and i think he would be convicted. thank you for coming on. we appreciate it. some in congress very angry. president obama did not consult them before the bombs started to fly in libya. megyn kelly on whether the president is compelled to consult congress. and, later, is it legal? investigating a smut list. t
look, we have to stop this slaughter. we can t allow it to happen. he has got paid mercenaries over there he has got big arms behind him, qaddafi, so we re going to do. this and they have succeeded, madea. they have succeeded in stopping slaughter that would have happened had they not started the bombing. correct? well, we don t know what would have happened. you can t tell. bill: come on, madea, you have got to do the math. how you can know what would have happened based on. bill: based on history, what had happened in the past. look what happened when we were going to overthrow another terrible dictator saddam hussein. bill: yeah. look what happened? he couldn t kill anybody. we got him out of there. we have iraqis that bill: it did neutralize saddam hussein and he couldn t murder anybody else. and that s why this action was taken. and there worse off with millions of them having fled the country. we unleashed. bill: they are better off now than they were. madea