humanitarian terms, i think those of us who looked at it realized in addition to whatever humanitarian mission we're going to carry out. this was our intervening in a civil war, that we have picked a winner, we had to stay in it until that outcome was guaranteed, and if we didn't, we would suffer the consequences of being the loser. and i think that's where we are now. we have a very uneasy quill lib prey yum, the battlefield is not shifting very much, and here we are looking at our options as to what more could or should we do? >> what are the options? >> they're not good, they're quite limited. it's more of the same. hoping that the regime fractures. but you know, i've been thinking lately, we talk a lot about who are those guys, and we're talking about the opposition. do we want to arm them? we don't know their true identities. i've come upon a new question in the past week or so, given the staying power of loyalist forces, i'm not talking about