in manassas virginia. and out of that grew an air-taxi operation. where it is that colgan would contract with... with x company to fly from a to b. >> o'brien: charter kind of thing. >> charter kind of thing. >> o'brien: chuck colgan is a former air force pilot who built his charter company by first flying ibm executives between washington and the company's main plant in poughkeepsie. then, colgan got a big break when, in the late '70s, the government deregulated the airline industry. deregulation brought increased competition and lower airfares. it also brought a new operating model called the hub and spoke. the major airlines created central hubs in big cities and turned to small regionals, or commuters, to feed their networks. >> so, they created these mechanisms where, "okay, we'll buy," you know, "50-seat airplanes for you. you'll set up or expand an existing company, and we'll make it look like that it's actually our airline. you buy the ticket from us, but," you know, "you're really flying on this o

our next call is from manassas, virginia, arraignment on the democrat line. aller: i haven't more of comment -- i don't have a question, but a comment. the way obama is seen on how he is handling the middle east crisis and everything going on over there, no matter what he does, the republicans will say the opposite. i think a lot of republicans need to notice that. if he went in there and started talking down on libya or anything like that, they would probably say that he's trying to create another war. host: we will leave it there. bobby ghosh, "time" magazine. guest: the obama administration has been a step behind on all of the arab issues. the cia and the state department could not and did not anticipate any of this. it is easy to see why. over a decade now, washington, whether republican or democrat, washington has quite a tendency to look at the arab countries throh a certain prism. and it has not been building relationships with the society's rather than individuals. these and peopleho have risen against their dictators particularly. the u.s. has very l

our next call is from manassas, virginia, arraignment on the democrat line. aller: i haven't more of comment -- i don't have a question, but a comment. the way obama is seen on how he is handling the middle east crisis and everything going on over there, no matter what he does, the republicans will say the opposite. i think a lot of republicans need to notice that. if he went in there and started talking down on libya or anything like that, they would probably say that he's trying to create another war. host: we will leave it there. bobby ghosh, "time" magazine. guest: the obama administration has been a step behind on all of the arab issues. the cia and the state department could not and did not anticipate any of this. it is easy to see why. over a decade now, washington, whether republican or democrat, washington has quite a tendency to look at the arab countries through a certain prism. and it has not been building relationships with the society's rather than individuals. these and people who have risen against their dictators particularly. the u.s. has ve