subsidy business, because president obama takes great pride in the fact that he s doubled the funding for pell grants. not free money, but they have to pay back and tuition has risen faster than health care over the last decades because the government is creating this artificial i think you re right, but i have to say the chances of that happening, the government getting out of college loans is about as likely as the government getting out of the housing business. on still ahead. the death of moammar qaddafi, the death of moammar qaddafi, is it ahost: could switching too really save you 15% or more on car insurance? host: do people use smartphones to do dumb things? man 1: send, that is the weekend. app grapgic: yeah dawg! man 2: allow me to crack.the bubbly! man 1: don t mind if i doozy. man 3: is a gentleman with a brostache invited over to this party? man 1: only if he s ready to rock! sfx: guitar and trumpet jam
they would be able to ask questions. jon: and then the death of moammar qaddafi, is that a opportunity for good press for the president? i think so. there s something key happening here, that s counter to the media narrative so the media can t quite pick up on it. it becomes evident in recent months, this administration is really good at killing people. it s not so good at diplomacy. the iraq thing, apparently is a diplomatic failure and couldn t work it out the peace process in the middle east is a shambles and reset with russia is a disaster, but it can kill people and if this guy had a texas accent and cowboy boots everyone would see that, but because he s a nice liberal, nobody sees that. jon: who won a nobel peace prize. who had the drones built and the democrats used to say it s wasteful gold plated technology and now it s one thing that s working. jon: interesting. if you like to keep up on media stories during the week,
had the united states said qaddafi must go and we re going to do it, you never would have got the united nations behind it and the arab league behind it, never would have got the rest of the world behind it and we would have been back with and we were backing this action by the time the united states became, became involved. look, the question is, are you interested in $is your idea of victory creating an international consensus or is it getting rid of this blood-minded dictator, who terrorized for years and we go the win and he is gone now, and isn t it a you re right, we got the win and i m glad president obama did it. it s unfortunate that so many republican contenders for the presidency opposed this. was it done well? not particularly well. should it be a model how we should act? i don t think so. matt, it s not a model? every war is different.
remember all those who suffered and were lost under qaddafi and look forward to the promise of a new day. paul: that was president obama on thursday, reacting to the death of dictator muammar qaddafi and calling it a momentous day in the history of libya. but is it also a vindication of the administration s often criticized policy of leading from behind? let s ask bret stevens and board member matt comiskey. no question a victory for the people of libya, matt. but is it also a victory for the u.s. interest? absolutely. it s the u.s. military that led the bombing campaign that turned the tide in the civil war and the europeans were out front, but in fact we provided the drones, the mid air refueling tankers, when the europeans ran out day four of the campaign we quietly surprised them and made this
interest and if you re a dictator, your days are number. there s an example here in libya what might happen with the say, the assad regime in syria, where we have an interest in seeing them go. what will assad take from this. assad will see this as a need to ramp up repression. and where his future may lie. it might be an opportunity for us to start providing real support for the opposition movement in syria, which are beginning to coalesce as a single political, political organization, that has meeting in turkey, they re becoming more organized, in some cases, more violent. but, do we have an interest in seeing iran s principal client in the arab world collapse? we do. briefly. any chance of getting the same coalition to topple assad as happened to qaddafi? i think so.