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Quickly as a consequence of internal defections. or a coup, or try to create a hurting stalemate so that over time in addition to frozen assets, containment and no-fly zone, and at some point somebody arming the rebels, whether it's the united states or not, i don't know. there are serious risks for doing that, keeping the pressure on gadhafi. but i'm afraid here, unless we get very lucky, we're in for a very long movie. that is not good for american interests and it's not good for american credibility. >> rick: how long? >> how long? again, if it doesn't crack quickly and this congeals into a...

Proven problematic. they support hamas. what you're going to see in syria is what you're going to get. it's going to be an arab winter. you've got a minority regime led by 15% of the population. unlike egypt where the military would not fire on the egyptian people because they had their own interests that needed to survive might be might be, this is not true of the others. it seems to me that the story will be repression, i'm afraid. >> rick: we're going to end with saudi arabia. i'm going to ask you about them in a moment. but let me go back to libya, which we sort of talked about a little of...

Possibility of brokering deals in dc? >> it's open season on president obama politically. everything he does now is going to be filtered through the eyes of pure politics and being reelected. i think it's a horrible decision for the white house to make. i welcome it as a republican because now the president has put himself out as candidate obama and not president obama. the governing president that he should do with especially when no republicans have formally announced. >> brad, is it ever not open season on the president? >> rick: it doesn't matter who is in the white house. >> not really, n...

The rebels fight here. one thing that will change over the next 24 hours as of sunday, the u.s. will end all military combat air and naval operations here in libya. they're handing these operations off to nato, to the brits, to the french. they will now begin to take the primary responsibility for enforcing this no-fly zone and also hitting gadhafi -- the u.s. will maintain a presence here. they will also support the operation here. but they are taking a back seat to the brits and to the french in terms of enforcing this no-fly zone and protecting civilians. no word yet how this will actually ...

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