peopakle. heas re-taking towns and systemically slaughtering thousands of civilians. we, along with the internaonal community, were in a position to stop that, through the use of force in therter short-term ovee course of the last four or five days, we were able tvao block h advances and save thousands of e lives. now, it's very unpredictable where we're going in the future. but in the short-term we had a humanitarian crisis that we could stop, so we made the decision to stop and have effectively done so. we've at least put a stalema in place, whereas before gadhafi was rolling across the country, as i said, systemically slaughtering civilians. so stopping that was sothing that was in our interest and that the international community supports. it's very clear what thel goa was. >> exce me for interrupting. was there any sense in this conversation with the president, obviously, there are a lot of people involved, as to when the president plans to address the nation on the issue ofhis