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People trying to get out of there? >> well you know i think we have to keep faith with people who trusted in our decision to overthrow gadhafi, to topple the pillars of the state that was there. i mean we didnt start this. the libyan rebels did, just as in other countries, but i think we do have to keep faith with people who look to american power and assume that we were making a commitment. how we exercise that commitment is complicated. you know the regional partners are much better boots on t...

Senator paul for almost two years, i think hes probably the best prepared of all the republican candidates, because hes read more hes thought more, and hes talked to a number of people and listened to a number of different points of view. >> so could you give me a concrete example of that? >> sure. >> yes, please. >> absolutely. he has criticized for example, the obama administration for intervening in libya without a plan. after the fall of the gadhafi government and the death of the dictator d...

Of the bell curve. i think he is probably the best prepares of all of the republican candidates because he read more and thought more and listens to a number of points of view. >> can you give me a current champ on that? >> absolutely he krit sides the obama administration for intervening in libya without a plan after the fall of the gadhafi government and not having a plan the day off. >> john boehner has done the same thing, the entire republican party has done that. >> at the same time he sup...

The ground? >> there is one truth to the middle east. theres a lot of confusion. theres a lot of misunderstanding. theres a lot of things that are difficult to understand in the middle east. but the one thing that i think i know is true when we have toppled secular dictators, weve gotten chaos and the rise of radical islam. not only hussein. iraq was a disaster. they lost their strong man and we had chaos. we did it to gadhafi. it happened in egypt as well. it threatens to happen in syria. every...

>> you want to name names when you are criticizing or blasting the so-called neocons? >> well you know if these people would release their [ inaudible ] we would know who they are. they want to be in the shadows and have something secret and put up a bunch of lies. i think there are people you will see in the senate who basically favored giving arms to gadhafi and then the next year they were favoring giving arms to the so-called freedom fighters. but now it turns out that the war they had in li...

>> absolutely, he criticizes the obama administration for intervening in libya without a plan after the fall of the gadhafi government and not having a plan the day off. >> john boehner has done the same thing, the entire republican party has done that. >> at the same time he supported the use of isis and has been unwilling to intervene like some republicans have want today do in syria. we have no allies in syria. it is a choice between the assad regime, al qaeda, or isis. when i talk about smar...

Anything. >> the ad is basically trying to say that your policies are similar to that of poem.obama. and its dangerous to the united states. youre saying thats not true? >> its completely untrue. i signed the letter to iran recently recently. i said all along that congress puts the sanctions on. i voted for the sanctions. theyre basically trying to create an issue and a wedge. what it does show you is somebody whos worried about me. someones spending a million dollars to -- >> do you have any id...

Prisoners still being held. those are separate issues and deal separately with that. this is strictly a deal to prevent iran for the foreseeable future from having a nuclear weapons capability. >> and i believe senator schumer and grassley and corker and others if this were like it was in libya, where they backed up a boat and took the nuclear components right out of libya, we wouldnt be having this discussion. >> gadhafis regime right after the war in 2003? >> exactly. we caught him red-handed....

Outlying areas of it being a problem but specifically when it cmes to yemen, this was a place where the peace was so -- either it was so fragile and the u.s. was calling it a success, or it missed how fragile the stability was, right? >> look everything is fragile. in libya we helped get rid of gadhafi and we thought that was good. we thought the government that was installed would be a democratic government and now look at libya. libyas a no mans land again. this has been happening straight on,...

Be worse off under shiite death squads and isis or saddam hussein? i mean these are very ugly questions we have to start asking ourselves as we move forward? >> do you make deals with these people either above board or back channel deals? yeah, i think its pretty much agreed one of the mistakes obama made is when he said assad must go. i mean put yourself in assads place, essentially the president of the united states is promising regime annihilation. >> there. he said mubarak must go. assad mus...