continue. would a no-fly zone push gadhafi out of power in your mind? saddam hussein lived under one for ten years, did he not? it depends on how you enforce it. remember, saddam hussein survived at the end of the gulf war because he was able to use his helicopters and airplanes to prevent the rebellion from succeeding in southern iraq. so i do think air power can be decisive in a battle between the two forces, and that s why i believe that taking away gadhafi s advantage of air power is part of what the international community could do. we don t know the answer to those questions, but we know that those who are there on the ground are saying if you take away the air presence of gadhafi, then at a ground level, they at least i want to ask one followup to your notion of nato going and taking away that air advantage. what does that mean that it s fundamentally different if anything from a no-fly zone? what i gather you re saying is nato aircraft would go in and either take out just