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That's more like a war situation and would not have backing of the united nations or any color of the kind of international support that was the case in both bosnia and iraq in the first no-fly zone there. >> the bottom line is we're not going to get russia and china. they're on the security council. is that right, josh? unlikely we'll get security council backed u.n. action here. >> russia and china are what's traditionally considered the sovereignty caucus. they are skeptical of any kind of intervention into another country's internal affairs and the russian foreign minister has been blunt a...

Operation is still disputed to this day. >> howard, let me bring you in here. it seems it's a slippery slope. if you're for it, it makes sense to get into a slippery slope. they are honest and clear. they want to go for a no-fly zone but immediately say let's go after those assets. i love the way they use those antiseptic terms, assets. they're people you will blow up over there. is this a real left/right fight over a war situation again? >> not quite. senator john kerry, the democrat head of the senate foreign relations committee is on record very strongly in favor of a no-fly zone in conjunc...

Right now we have a conversation about a no-fly zone and we're pre-imposing these conditions and meanwhile things in libya are proceeding at their own pace while this conversation is going on and it's not clear that there will be support to actually impose this. >> if we do it on our own, if we do a no-fly zone on our own, that's more like a war situation and would not have backing of the united nations or any color of the kind of international support that was the case in both bosnia and iraq in the first no-fly zone there. >> the bottom line is we're not going to get russia and china. they'r...

When told no fly, think it's an easy. sort of halfway between going to war and not. in effect, if you go halfway to war, it's like being half pregnant. we go into that war situation, we kill libyans and civilians by accident and we're in that war and even hawks say you have to hit the ground and hit the air fields and hit the aaa fire, it's serious business. the idea of the no-fly zone is somehow antiseptic and doesn't kill people is dishonest. if we go to war, we better win it and win it fast. the american people don't like long wars. they hate being stuck in another third world country over ...

He said if they back it, pay for it. is there any chance the arabs will pay for us to go into the region and fight one of their governments? >> the arab league suggestion was we bring this to the security council which is the same thing hillary clinton has been saying as well. and some other proponents. former director of policy planning for the state department has also supported bringing this to the security council. you know, the thing as i mentioned the no-fly zone gets thrown around as an option when political action is untenable. right now we have a conversation about a no-fly zone and w...