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Secretary kerry is on and needs to be on in order to figure out how do we not be part of the problem anymore. >> thats absolutely right. its libya we did intervene and syria we are intervening in the sense of were sending money and helping other people send weapons so its not like were sitting by. but in terms of what happened at libya, that has been the lesson learned to the extent we can. my sense is that your feelings about the libyan intervention are different than these and i want to get yo...

When america is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. extremism takes root, our interests suffer, our security at home is threatened. >> i thought that was such -- thats hillary clinton testifying this week and i thought that line was so important because it kind of disstills down i think the operational theory in intervention here or american leadership, which is when america is absent, especially from unstable environments, there are consequences. extremism tak...

Intensely now. >> exactly. >> and i think one of the reasons i think its important to kind of -- it may seem weird, why are we relitigating libyan intervention. >> because of the impact. >> and because of the first time around it never got litigated, right? and what happened -- and whats weird about the whole benghazi issue to me, this is kienlds nd weird, its a way of talking about the libyan intervention now after the fact because we have these deaths and this tragedy and this cascade of effec...

Libya seems to me happening in syria as well where there hasnt been the same intervention and so maybe its just the nature of the conflict as opposed to what the u.s. or the west does. >> no, thats a copout. its not the nature of the conflict. the very same jihadists who were called terrorists in 2000, the libya islamic fighting group who were called terrorists, they were the same people financed to overthrow the gadhafi regime. so all of these organizations that are now in benghazi creating pro...

Participate in any sort of internal or interagency meeting before this attack with regard to the deteriorating security situation in libya? >> with specific security requests, they didnt come to me, i had no knowledge of them. >> for the most part, though, republicans seemed to obsess over the comments of the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice over double talk, alleged coverup and whether rice purposely underplayed the terrorist connection and underscored protests to an anti-muslim film. >> ...

Creating the problems in north africa. >> i think people may not know this. up until 2007 there was no distinct central africa command in terms of the way the pentagon cleaved the world. in 2007 there was africa command and it currently is stationed in europe, not actually in africa. there have been a variety of initiatives to train the soldiers of different african regimes, counterterrorism training, other kinds of training and in fact the soldiers of mali. mali was one of the star pupils in th...

Weve seen all over africa from the u.s. africa command. 50,000 libyans have been killed out of this intervention. the whole region of north africa has been destabilized. there are 1700 militias running around libya today. the u.s. ambassador has been killed. the united nations is calling for a full review. what the united states need is to have a review of its whole africa command and to withdraw its military forces. theres no need for the united states to be engaged with africa through the mili...

Because thats the place where the heat is now on because we have an explicit western intervention, 2300 french troops. do you think the state department is -- what is their perspective on the french intervention in mali and what they are doing there. is this worrying the obama administration? is there support for this? >> well, obviously the united states is providing refueling facilities for the french warplanes so, yes, the united states is playing a role already. i think there are no comforta...

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