happen militarily and president obama didn t take that lead politically, i think that cost us, but overall a great success, it would have been terrible if he stayed in power, tunisia and on this point, whether or not his political restraint cost us. elaborate on that. well, look, this was a campaign that should have taken two weeks, instead took seven months. the result was a tremendous loss of lives. the result was the near collapse of n.a.t.o. and people forget that the british and the french, the primary, our n.a.t.o. allies practically ran out of bombs the first couple weeks in the war and n.a.t.o. nearly fell apart over the campaign. and qaddafi stayed in power much longer than he needed to and this was a weak regime could have been toppled in weeks. paul: the administration argues had the president led from the front, if you will,
they re losing patience with assad and they were close, the europeans have interests in syria. not saying we should do the same thing, but the message to assad is, choose a comfortable exile, the qaddafi was not a good one. paul: we have to take a break. when we come back, our hits and misses of the week. but you see, with the help of her raymond james financiaadvisor, she had planned f every eventuality. which meant she continued to have the means to live on. even at the ripe old age of 187. life well planned. see what a raymond james advisor can do for you. the two trains and a bus rider. the i ll sleep when it s done academic. for 80 years, we ve been inspired by you.
interest and if you re a dictator,our dayare 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.
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, is it a the obama administration leading from behind? hat in one daily dose. citracal slow release. continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal. can make it from australia to a u.s. lab to a patient in time for surgery may seem like a trumped-up hollywood premise.
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.