. >> maybe there was a point to having muammar gaddafi in power. he could keep a lid on these things. that is how he served in the west in some way. >> some of these dictators that there were to keep a lid on it, even in the former soviet countries. the strong man, the hit man was there to keep a lid on things. i would like to go back to benghazi in follow up on what scott bates said. the highest literacy rate compared to what you have on both sides is in libya. was keeping people down and pork. if i can go back to the point, what scott said earlier about benghazi, i think we have been gauzy as an example. the new fbi director coming n has asked -- we have been gauzbi as an example. the overreaction is shutting down the 21 indices, probably there is a reason. they said the chatter was higher, at center, but i would like to follow up on what scott said as well. the u.s. provides an enormous amount assistance as well, saying they provide $3 billion in health assistance in economic development $2 billion, and humanitarian assistance, $1 billion. it is

that was severed by muammar gaddafi.host: 4 10,000 years the location attracted colonizers as a population of each wave of newcomers is slowly forge the libyan identity. today evidence of other cultures and history, a greek theaters and italian cafes is stamped on this predominantly-arab country. how has it retained arab identity? guest: there is a problem with the last part of your question, because when muammar gaddafi became the leader of libya in 1969, he said about erasing history or rather reconfiguring it to suit his own means. among the things he did was preached to libyans that the west kept libya under its boot heel. part of this was true, but essentially what he was trying to do is sever connections to the world across the mediterranean, with one exception, he built a pipeline from libya to sicily. beyond that in and figured it ways, a very profound sweeping ways to move libya away from the rest of the world. host: we're seeing a picture of children in libya. how much do children know about the greco roman inf

when we shut down the iraqi nuclear threat, muammar gaddafi surrender all of his stuff. he had centrifuges, he had a weapons design, a chinese nuclear weapons design, all that stuff now resides in the united states. gaddafi did not want to have happen to him what happened to saddam hussein. when we went after gaddafi, we went after khan. he went into the black market operation himself and was selling nuclear weapons technology to the libyans. they were his best customer. to the iraqis, north koreans, and we shut down khan's black market operation. we took out three major sources of proliferation. that in and of itself is reason enough for what we did to saddam hussein in iraq. the threat has not gone away. you may remember it was discovered in the spring of 2007 that a few months after north korea set off their first nuclear test that the north koreans had built a nuclear reactor a couple of producing plutonium in the eastern syrian desert. syria's a mess today. imagine what would have happened if the israelis had not taken out that nuclear reactor. we also found from kh

helping to oust muammar gaddafi, the president made the grand speech, never letting dictators slaughter, i don't understand how he gets a free pass. there is nothing but dictator slotting your own people. >> winners your foreign policy at the breast of the united nations you get this idea that if somebody does something atrocious you will send the letter and if you keep doing it you will send a strongly worded letter and if they don't stop and you will send them a very strongly worded letter in your going to underline all the big words. that is how useless the un and foreign policy has become, nobody fears us, nobody respects us, nobody understands us. >> the rationale for intervening in libya where there was no slaughter happening yet, once the responsibility to protect, samantha power is is a u.n. ambassador, that was her philosophy. responsibility to project to protect christians and the middle east. >> i don't feel there is any. we have not said anything. and the irony is the other arab nations in the gulf states, whether it is the saudis or poured money into the egyptian military a

when we shut down the iraqi nuclear threat, muammar gaddafi surrender all of his stuff.had centrifuges, he had a weapons design, a chinese nuclear weapons design, all that stuff now resides in the united states. gaddafi did not want to have happen to him what happened to saddam hussain. in the end he got worse. when we went after gaddafi, we went after khan. he went into the black market operation himself and was selling nuclear weapons technology to the libyans. they were his best customer a. to the iraqis, north koreans, khan's blackdown market operation. we took out three major sources of proliferation. that in and of itself is reason enough to for what we did to saddam hussain anorak. the threat has not gone away. you may remember it was discovered in the spring of 2007 that a few months after new earth korea set off their first nuclear test that the north koreans had built a nuclear reactor a couple of producing cerealum in the eastern -- syrian desert. serious a mess today. imagine what would have happened if the israelis had not taken out that nuclear reactor. kha