in libya, when gadaffi fell, he never allowed any institution to gain enough capability to be able tootentially challenge him. libya, to some extent, was starting off, you know, from scratch. it lacks the single most important impairitive of a national government, a monopoly on the use of force. every political constituency in libya or many are heavily armed and, in some indicates, potentially a combination. they will gun the central government. it's going to take time. i think the professor is right. region by region and pocket by pocket before, you know, this stabilizes. >> let's talk about february 20th, that big date there where they start this process, hopefully of writing this new constitution. mansuer, how much stock do you put in this, that this will actually help the country? >> you have to start from zip, build the state in the first place. basically, it was a great schooechlt to first of all have an assembly of 200 members elected with 39% of those women for the first time. i mean we had demonstrations in the streets yesterday and day before yesterday, day before that. the

not said that, the british played a role in the libyan air campaign three years ago to get rid of gadaffi. added something happened to turn up to do something they would. but we are in no position at the moment to undertake the kind of enduring long term operations we have had over the past decade like iraq and afghanistan. but having said that, i see no politician willing to commit british forces in that way id earlier this year with the whole al qaeda thing blew up, it kept pointing out he was very proud of the way britain had handled libya. so the job was achieved. looking at libya today it is harder. but the saving is true with washington the appetite for committing the military to open-ended operations overseas is a difficult movement. >> host: day que very much. [applause] we do have copies of the book available for purchase and con coughlin will sign his book for you but thanks for coming today may look forward to welcoming you back to the fair -- to the rich foundation. [inaudible conversations] . . facebook.com/booktv. >> booktv is live from savannah, ga. home to the annual savan