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To step up the development of their nuclear and missile program. is that a view shared in the region? >> heres the thing, north korea has said that their nuclear and missile program is designed to protect the regime and protect them against the united states, who they see as a threat. and they look at countries like iraq under saddam hussein and libya under gaddafi. those countries and leaders gave up their weapons of mass destruction. iran came to the negotiating table. they negotiated with the...

Be lived by our kids and grand kids. >> judge napolitano: youre exactly right. the government will totally disillusion generation of young people. if it spends today and makes those generations, some of them not even born yet, pay for the spending. before i let you go, soon theyll be forced to vote on a simple question. should the government be permitted to raise the debt limit or permitted to borrow more money? senator moran of kansas, will you vote against that? >> i will unless there is drama...

Intervention the best option to resolve conflict in libya? with more on that issue is dr. walid feris, middle east expert and author of "the coming revolution: struggle for freedom in the middle east." and general jerry boiken, author of "never surrender." walid, if i may, since we are friends and colleagues, to you first. what is the situation on the ground in libya? are the rebels asking for, would they even expect or want american military assistance? would military assistance harm their caus...

>> judge napolitano: what do you think whats next? oil prices are really going up,le in prices are really going up. does the president see this as an issue that the government could control with strategic oil reserves by lessening taxes or by bombing libya? >> a lot of choices there. number one, i hope he doesnt see the strategic petroleum reserve as an option for trying to control price. because if he does, it will be an utter failure. the truth of the matter is the reserve is far from being la...

Only to help them take care of the sense around gaddafi. if the opposition on the ground, who can stay there and cannot cross, then they will have two zones in libya and well have to intervene at some point in time. >> judge napolitano: before i get to the general, dr. phares, does the opposition, do the rebels even want american military assistance? >> excellent question, because theyre divided or at least sending two different messages. on the one hand, when we speak with the diplomats, those ...

That wed be confronting, but it doesnt, it doesnt mean there arent significant risks associated with taking out their air defense systems. as well as air-to-air combat if they tried to stop some of the jets that gaddafi launches. i think its an unnecessary and unacceptable risk for the u.s. i think the u.s. could support this with intelligence. as well as logistics. but i dont want to see u.s. aircraft involved in a no-fly zone. >> judge napolitano: walid, should the president of the united stat...

The europeans no doubt about that. but im afraid that the radical element will slowly creep in to the area of the command and soon we will have libya under gaddafi and maybe libya under a radical at the end of the day. its a hard strategic choice to make. >> judge napolitano: last question, what do you think will happen? as things now stand, is he crazy enough to stay there while bullets are shooting at him and nothing to protect him? will he literally stay there with his last drop of blood or w...

Only to help them take care of the sense around gaddafi. if the opposition on the ground, who can stay there and cannot cross, then they will have two zones in libya and well have to intervene at some point in time. >> judge napolitano: before i get to the general, dr. phares, does the opposition, do the rebels even want american military assistance? >> excellent question, because theyre divided or at least sending two different messages. on the one hand, when we speak with the diplomats, those ...

Is united states military intervention the best option to resolve conflict in libya? with more on that issue is dr. walid feris, middle east expert and author of "the coming revolution: struggle for freedom in the middle east." and general jerry boiken, author of "never surrender." walid, if i may, since we are friends and colleagues, to you first. what is the situation on the ground in libya? are the rebels asking for, would they even expect or want american military assistance? would military ...

That wed be confronting, but it doesnt, it doesnt mean there arent significant risks associated with taking out their air defense systems. as well as air-to-air combat if they tried to stop some of the jets that gaddafi launches. i think its an unnecessary and unacceptable risk for the u.s. i think the u.s. could support this with intelligence. as well as logistics. but i dont want to see u.s. aircraft involved in a no-fly zone. >> judge napolitano: walid, should the president of the united stat...