this is the former canadian diplomat peter dale scott is in california for us on a straight connection i believe very good evening to you mr scott now there's an increasing talk of supplying arms to the rebels in libya but when the u.s. tried this before such as supplying weapons to the taliban in afghanistan in the 1980's it led me to a catastrophic reversal of fortune and now could we be witnessing a danger of who do you think. i think it would be very very foolish for america to arm the rebels. you never know the reason rai the cia is in libya i think the primary reason is to find out who the rebels are and there is name are reports very solid reports for some here is the l i f g which is probably the dominant staging. element of this very mixed up coalition of rebels is itself very close to al-qaeda is composed largely of people who fought in iraq against america it's amazing to me that secretary of state hillary clinton who is now well i think pretty much in the forefront of those people rushing to want to arm the rebels she or so testified just a week or two ago that the rebels i