out. as baker said, qaddafi was always going to be the rebels were always going to be out gunned and out manned by qaddafi. however, do we have to make it this easy for him? couldn t we go in and make his job a little more difficult? to bill s point, if we re damned if we do and damned if we don t, why don t we do? why don t we stand up and do and have the moral courage and conviction to do the right thing? to your point, sir, why don t we just assassinate qaddafi? i am so into this idea. there is a reason america s policy does not support that. it is because the american president is the most visible president in the world, so it is not our policy to go in and uhsassinate. but a no-fly zone? come on on, it is the least we can do. i said my peace. and that was a hell of a peace. i would like to get some of that peace. i would like to bully you on this for a moment. all right. we helped get mubarak out of egypt, and he wasn t killing his own people.
living in manhattan i am reminded of man s ugliness. but i forgot the viciousness of mother nature. looking at the devastation from my cozy apartment, i can only think there was someone in japan doing the same thing when the quake hit, sitting at home and drinking tea in boxers and then it is over. disaster rarely calls ahead. we are all vulnerable to the whims of catastrophe and there is little wisdom to be gained from it other than information for future planning. we all know life is precious, but it is also a sentence featuring novel methods of mayhem. and the tragedy in japan only added another exclamation point. you would think there are no winners in this tragedy, but you are wrong. if there is one man who is smiling broadly throughout it has to be qaddafi whose own cruel behavior has been lost in all of the grim tsunami coverage. his viciousness buried under too many other stories of suffering. if there is anything to be gained by this terrible weekend is that someone may send a
statement in mime. can you sayingmething in mime? yes, you can. she says, without you we would have been trapped in a box. and we would have been walking against the wind holding a rope. i don t know. good for her. yes. good for everyone, really. you said the bottom line is qaddafi has more and better weapons and more and better trained soldiers and the rag tag rebels don t have a chance. have you never seen star wars? i didn t say they don t scr a they don t have a chance, and what could happen by the way, i did see star wars, and who doesn t love star wars ? but they do have a ns cha. what will happen is they will be beaten back in a fro decisional campaign and back in a traditional campaign and they may retreat and turn it into an urban warfare. they could drag it on forever. you remember rag tag force
qaddafi is killing his own people and we are not doing it. what message do we have for bahrain and saudi arabia those are two different places, right? yes. just checking. we are saying if you don t want america to interfere, be violent. we didn t do squat to get rid of mubarak. every day we had a different message about what we wanted to happen in egypt. the important aspect is if we step into libya at this point and aside from the fact that all france has done is said, we recognize the transitional government, well bully for them. what we are being asked to do is put our people s lives on the line. step in there in the military conflict and suddenly that will completely spin this dynamic again back to the same thing, right now in the middle east this is being done by the arabs. this is their development. this is their uprising regardless of what country it is. as soon as we do anything other than have the president stand up and make a strong
that, quote, if the security council fails to act, then we should recognize the opposition as the legitimate government. or at the least, send in these two hideous creatures. the cuteness could paralyze a country. mike, good to have you here. my gut feeling, and i felt this a week ago, it is over. the whole qaddafi thing, we had our chance and did we blow it? we did blow it. it depends on where you sit on this one. there is no mystery that qaddafi has better weapons and more and better soldiers and more and better communications and more and better lawistics. better wardrobe. farber war wardrobe.