. >> brown: we look more at the role of the west now with robert malley. he worked in the national security council in the clinton white house, and is now program director for the middle east and north africa at the international crisis group. welcome to you. >> when you listen to secretary clinton there and you think about how the u.s. and west-- and the west can help libya now, what are the main considerations? >>ic the first consideration is what's happening in libya today, what are the main challenges. and then you work backyards and see can the international community help. number one is to make sure the country remains together-- in other words you don't have convictiones, you don't have a witch-hunt, you don't have part of the country that feels the other part is taking revenge and that is something we have experienced in iraq, and the international community could encourage the new leaders to be as inclusive as possible and giving as possible. >> brown: when you say "the new leaders" part one is determining to who we are dealing with. >> that's the

and robert malley, former national security council staff member in the clinton administration.s now with the international crisis group. daniel kurtzer, start with you. today we saw this press continuing by the u.s. and other western officials to try to head off a vote. explain what has them so concerned. what's going on? >> well, i think there are two concerns that the administration is trying to head off. number one, that the move by the palestinians to the u.n. could in some ways foreclose an early opportunity to return to negotiations. as your report indicated, we haven't had negotiations for quite some time, but there's a concern that this will simply drive the parties further apart as they take unilateral steps against each other. the second, more serious concern has to do with the possibilities that the palestinians will use their new u.n. status to gain standing in international legal institutions such as the international criminal court or the international court of justice and to transform what has been a diplomatic process into a legal process of holding settlement i