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>> it's more than a no-fly, it's a declaration of war, basically, against gadhafi? >> sounds to me like it's broad authorization. >> well, at least it's doing it right if you're going to do it. i'm not sure it's a good idea, but if you're going to do it, knock them out of there! thank you, ambassador. >> you're welcome. >> nice to have some exercise on the region. next, presidential politics. donald trump is talking more like a candidate, tuned my distress, talking more like a birther, but maybe that's the way to show he's serious. he's willing to talk like the people on the very far right i...

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...

Say we will bank-roll it and we will join it? why don't they say that in their resolution, the arab league? >> because the arab league is not equal to the sum of its parts. each government will have to decide what role, if any, it plays. the saudis, the uae, they can help bank-roll it -- >> who will join us in the attack against gadhafi? will the saudis put pilots in their cockpit and attack gadhafi? >> i don't know. they don't like gadhafi. the egyptians will obviously be providing air bases. we'll do awacs, which is more important in the planes being effective. but the problem is not the lib...

And since the french are the ones who sold the libyans all that high-performance aircraft in the libyan inventory, i think the french ought to be out there shooting some of the aircraft down. >> this may be the first time when we do have allies that are real -- the french, the british, the lebanese have all supported this resolution, apparently. >> well, we do and we don't. let's not forget -- i worked on the iraq no-fly zones it was a french resolution, basically, resolution 688 -- >> then they pulled out. >> -- that got us in. and the first time they saw some iraqi civilians were going to be...