government. they want to be a democracy and we have to remain engaged in that part of the world in setting up not just the ballot box to help them become a dem cutaneous anthrax but all of the things that go with it. >> brian: you're absolutely right. when 20 embassies are attacked in the same day, that gets overwhelmed. with four people dead -- >> steve: it was 9-11. >> brian: right. on 9-11. it seemed that the president did not even also elect to meet with the world leaders after where i would have told the leader of sudan, how dare you refuse to let my marines land? >> brian, the president that week talked to -- you remember, talked to the leader of libya and talked to the leader of egypt specifically to say, you've got specific -- i know specifically to egypt in reading the read outof that, you have specific obligations and requirements to protect our personnel, to forget our embassy. >> brian: and he took days to respond. >> what is important with that is we have to do what we need to