daniel serwer is our guest.is joining us -- ann is joining us from florida on the democrats' line. caller: we have a lot of young adults coming up trying to get into colleges and universities. there is a conflict, obviously, and there is a lot of hate going on. i wonder how you feel about instituting a draft or a mandatory capacity for these young americans to get in there and take a tour every two years, if necessary, as part of protecting our own. from this type of hatred that i do not believe we have ever experienced. guest: i am rather favorable towards the idea of national service a. it cannot be national military service because the military can no longer used draftees as they did in the past. the training is too long and you cannot use people who are only in for two years. the military has improved -- it has improved our military performance enormously. ibid be favorable towards set -- i would be a favorable toward some kind of national service requirement. i think the book's title is accurate. i felt tha

to cross the globe is future i'm joined by daniel serwer in washington he's a professor a real lecturer at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies also in washington we have paul coring he is a foreign correspondent for the globe and mail and in new york we go to ted rall he is a journalist political cartoonist and author of the anti-american manifesto all right gentlemen this is crossfire that means you can jump in anytime you want to me very much encouraging but first what are libya's prospects moving forward well you know as you mentioned in the beginning the road ahead of libya is anything but clear and i dare say it is all because of deploy a city deployed city which has a company of the death of moammar gadhafi as well as the entirely been campaign as the media continues to chew over the ghoulish details of the deposed leader is death we're taking back to the history of libya's ties with the west which revealed the democracy and humanitarianism were really on the agenda from a time when gadhafi was branded the mad dog of the middle east to a period when his relation

tomorrow on "washington journal", daniel serwer from the jat -- john hopkins organization that fo. details on that affected social security recipients will get a 3.6% increase next year. then jonathan martin and amy gardner on the latest developments in the 2012 presidential campaign. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is just to me very obvious that with all the priorities we have, and they're all worthy, until further notice, every decision the national government makes, every close call should be made in favor of economic growth. every type should be broken in favor of growth of the private sector. >> he worked as an adviser in the reagan white house, omb director and george w. bush's administration and he implemented budget cuts that produced $1 billion in surplus. mitch daniels on his decision not to run for president in 2012 at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c- span's today. >> on friday, president obama honored the recipients of the 2010 medal of science and technology. it is the highest honor bestowed on scientists and innovators. the president discussed

." >> tomorrow, daniel serwer talks about the future of libya. alex lawson has details about the announcement of an increase in social security benefits. then, a political roundtable with jonathan martin and amy gardner on the latest developments in the 2012 campaign. >> on sunday, senator tom harkin will talk about the recent work on the note child left behind act -- no child left legislation.d jobs >> former mexican president vicente fox talked about mexico's drug war and made the case for legalizing drugs. he said one benefit would be that the billions of dollars of revenue will not be flown into the hands of cartel but rather to the government. this is hosted by the cato institute. it is about 35 minutes. >> the united states has been fighting drug trafficking for a least 40 years since president nixon declared a war on drugs to prevent them from being readily consumed in this country. washington has led an increasingly aggressive international war on drugs. that has been a policy that has been proven impotent to stop drug use. the supply-sid

. >> tomorrow, from the john hopkins university center, daniel serwer talks about the future of libya. alex lawson has details that social security recipients will get a increase in benefits next year. and at the political roundtable with jonathan martin and amy gardner on the latest developments in the 2004 presidential campaign. "washington journal" live at 7:00 on c-span. speaking in front of the small business committee, he faced criticism from the ranking republican on the committee. the >> i was here when president reagan was elected. we had 10.8% unemployment. guess what -- he had a democratic house and a republican senate. we worked hand in glove to get it done for the american people. rome is burning. it is facing the decimation of our community. they want help. they feel they are not getting any difference from the administration and in congress for that matter. if you are talking about policies in 2014, 2015, 2016 -- we have had three years of virtually the same unemployment numbers as we do today. that is the point. this is nothing new. we need to get a head of the curve a