let's bring in a fellow at stanford, let's bring in robert baer, a former cia officer, fouad ajami, and national contributor, fran townsend. fouad, i'm curious all day, i've been wondering about your thoughts as you watch -- as you heard the news today, in drips and drabs, and now you see these very bloody videos of this man that ruled so long, what were your thoughts? >> well, you know, it's very interesting, anderson. i forget this person mentioned. i just wrote a piece for "the wall street journal" for tomorrow, that on the one hand it's a moment of exhilaration and there is a disappointment, anticlimactic that when you find out that this figure that we thought about and was actually cowards. that moammar gadhafi came out of this rat hole and his request was, don't shoot, don't shoot. and this is a replay, exactly, of what suddam hussein did several years ago. it's a familiar story that the despots is fraud until the bitter end. >> and also, fouad, they live with such grandeur in their life, the pomposity in the interviews that they give and history shows time after time, they end up