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Run for it, marty. y? >> who, who? >> who do you think, the libyans. >> who do you think? the libyans! this is the guy who was running libya at the time that movie, back to the future, came out in 1985. same guy. erweca d ti maze ver from 1986, target gadhafi. while not quite the same thing, still, ballpark, before the new libyan war and new nuclear disaster, not chernobyl but japan. my friend david sirota turned this into a book about how the 1980s are not only repeating themselves, they warped our national thinking in

Through proxy wars, through bombing raids and through 25 years ago almost to the month bombing libya. that was the idea. we saw it in pop un ie p culture, pop culture aimed at children, and now seeing a rerun. this idea that every problem can be solved, every foreign policy problem apparently can be solved with a war. another thing that comes out of the '80s, every domestic problem supposedly can be solved by a tax cut. these all come out of the 1980s. and again, both the political culture and popular culture of the 1980s. >> the nice thing about that, it can be sort of a bummer when you think...

All over the mideast. at the end of the day i have no concern about al-qaeda running libya. i do have concern that the president's speech last night is going to prolong this war. if gadhafi stays in power it will be a national security disaster for this country and the region. that is nonnegotiable. he must go. military force should be on the take to make him go. >> greta: you think we should have boots on the ground? >> i don't think we need boots on the ground. any time a tank moves out in the open blow it up. closer you get to tripoli the harder it is going to be. if our airpower can neutra...

all over the mideast. at the end of the day i have no concern about al-qaeda running libya. i do have concern that the president's speech last night is going to prolong this war. if gadhafi stays in power it will be a national security disaster for this country and the region. that is nonnegotiable. he must go. military force should be on the take to make him go. >> greta: you think we should have boots on the ground? >> i don't think we need boots on the ground. any time a tank moves out in the open blow it up. closer you get to tripoli the harder it is going to be. if our airpower can neu...

Separate. japan is facing that situation right now. right now their regulators are within department of trade. nuclear power is an important trade and economic issue in japan. they are trying to sell reactor parts around the world. tepco was trying to get involved in power plants here in the u.s. so you know, they have every reason to promote it, and that really does put a hamper there. >> thanks for joining us. when we return, let me finish with the obama clinton alliance. had to do with us going into libya to perhaps stop a small holocaust there. you're watching "hardball" only on msnbc.