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Welcome back to "hardball." is it possible that moammar gadhafi will hold on to power in libya? what if he stays in office despite all the support for the rebels and all the bombing? how long could that last? robin wright is a joint fellow at the institute of peace, and david mack has served in many posts, including an early assignment interacting with gadhafi himself. he's a scholar at the middle east institute right now. thank you, robin, and mr. ambassador. the same question to both of you, i guess. could gadhafi hang on indefinitely? robin first. >> i find it very unlikely, the man is sque...

Welcome back to "hardball." is it possible that moammar gadhafi will hold on to power in libya? what if he stays in office despite all the support for the rebels and all the bombing? how long could that last? robin wright at the institute of peace, and david mack has served in many posts, including an early assignment interacting with gadhafi himself. he's a scholar at the middle east institute right now. thank you, robin, and mr. ambassador. the same question to both of you, i guess. could gadhafi hang on indefinitely. robin first. >> i find it very unlikely, the man is squeezed economically ...

That. i suspect that there will be some military presence. >> who's flying the planes, us or the saudis? >> it's likely to be -- i would suspect it's going to be the americans and the europeans mostly, but there will be, you know, ka taris from the united arab emirates and other arab countries as well. i don't know exactly how that's going to play out, but there will be some integration, but the west carrying like the big burden of this. >> thank you, colum lynch of "the washington post" covering in new york. with me is former ambassador david mack, a former u.s. diplomat who served many posts...