there are far greater national security interests going on particularly when you look throughout the region. libya is just not -- which is why i think you're seeing this appearance of a completely inconsistent policy. president obama himself in announcing that we were going to be doing military strikes was very -- at the same time he says we're going to war says, it's not going to be long, only a few days, not weeks. you know, you definitely get this sort of push/pull type of feeling, which i think -- >> jim miklaszewski, you've covered presidents and pentagons. here was candidate obama on this program interviewed by tim russert back in 2006. listen to this. >> and what would, in your mind, define a great president? >> obviously most of the time it seems that the president has maybe 10% of his agenda set by himself and 90% of it set by