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Unforgiving. go back and look at uwanda. president clinton said this was a great moral failure. go back to srebrenica in 1995 when 7,000 people were murdered by the serbian killer squads and then we concluded that this too was unforgivable. it is this moment now, in arab history. this is the springtime of the arab people. will this battle turn in favor of this man and his killer squads and mercenaries. >> i was with the patriotic front and the difference between that and now is there are cell phone cameras and brave people getting the story out, not just ben wedeman in benghazi, but libyans ri...

I say this with a heavy heart, because i was a supporter of president bush. but i think that was in error. then came further years of indulging this terrible man, moammar gadhafi. and we now see the harvest of the bargain we've made. >> it's interesting, fouad, because with mubarak, the bush administration had this sort of name and shame policy where condoleezza rice made a public declaration in cairo critical of the regime, and yet there you see her meeting with gadhafi in libya the first secretary of state to ever do that. >> i think we go back to what we were talking about. that low point i...

So you crack these regimes and a lot of instability is going to flow out. it's going to be a long time before they find their footing. >> it's incredible when you look at all the money gadhafi has made from oil, and yet he spent very, very little on his people. there's only 6 million people or something in libya, and yet their education system is a joke. >> yeah. even egypt, you know, you have somewhere around 30% illiteracy in egypt, which we consider a modern country, the leader of the arab world. 30 years from now, anderson, historians will look back and say how do we put up with this group...

We'll talk with dr. fouad ajami and jill dougherty. first, the latest from inside libya. cnn's ben wedeman, first western journalist inside libya and to make it to the libl rated city of benghazi. ben, what was it like when you arrived in benghazi today? >> reporter: it blew our minds, anderson. we arrived in the mid afternoon and we showed up in the center of town where there were thousands of people already demonstrated. when they saw us arrive, they just exploded with cheers and clapping, people saying "thank you, thank you" in english. throwing candy and dates inside the car. i mean, the o...

He's indulged, he would turn europe black, he would unleash on europe floods of african immigrants. so this man has played the game to perfection, and let's not forget that. >> there's an important distinction with mubarak and saddam hussein. libya and gadhafi has killed americans and attacked americans and attacked british soil. that makes a big distinction. and how he should be treated and addressed. >> it's got to outrage you to hear these libyan diplomats now, the libyan ambassador to the u.s., representatives of the u.n., now all of a sudden saying we're with the people, we're not with ga...