GUY RAZ, Host: Shadi Hamid, thank you so much for being with us.</s>SHADI HAMID: Thanks for having me.</s>GUY RAZ, Host: First to the response from the secretary-general of the Arab League. He has essentially said, this operation has now gone too far. This after the Arab League had called on the international community to enforce a no-fly zone.</s>SHADI HAMID: But now he's saying that it's gone too far, and that instead of protecting civilians, the Western operation is bombarding civilians. And for this turnaround to come so soon after the mission started is really quite surprising. And this suggests that there's going to be more Arab opposition in the coming days as this military operation intensifies.</s>GUY RAZ, Host: Why do you think Moussa said this?</s>SHADI HAMID: So I think what we're seeing here is Amr Moussa positioning himself - and perhaps he's anticipating that while Arab public opinion is still largely supportive of the intervention that that support might shift to something more neutral or perhaps oppositional in the coming weeks.</s>GUY RAZ, Host: So do you anticipate that what Amr Moussa said could resonate more widely in the Arab world? In other words, could the tide turn? Where right now, you do have broad Arab support for this international action, to the point where that could change?</s>SHADI HAMID: So I think from that standpoint, it's understandable that there's going to be this distrust and suspicion even when what the Western nations here are doing is essentially preventing the mass slaughter of Libyan pro-democracy forces.</s>GUY RAZ, Host: Shadi Hamid, thank you so much.</s>SHADI HAMID: Thanks for having me.
International forces intervened in Libya with broad support in the Arab world. But a day later, Arab League Secretary General of Amr Moussa said the military efforts had gone too far. Shadi Hamid, director of research at the Brookings Doha Center in Qatar, offers his insight.