it's djibouti, it's ymen, it's around the world you have now these uprisings of people and world of internationalmunity... will the international community respond by arming all sides in each of those conflicts? i don't think so. i think we need to think of other tools in our international tool kit to respond to crises like this. >> lehrer: what about the professor's specific point if the rebels... if the citizens are not armed they're going to be destroyed by qaddafi's army because they're outmanned and they're outarmed. >> i think clearly we have to use all means to protect the civilians. i think that was resolution 1973 of the u.n., to protect the civilians. but arming the civilians takes a step further that was not in resolution 1973. takes a step further from protecting to actually creating combatants in a conflict and arming them. and, again, many of these combatants are young, they are poorly trained. they are child soldiers. and in a situation like this, we want to make sure that we first do no harm. arming these opposition forces could well undermine their movement and create even more c