may be at risk, frankly they really weren't doing their homework, paying attention to what's involved, and therefore i hope we can walk them back. >> michael, i'm curious about this whole u.n. resolution, what -- in the past few months we've seen yemen and bahrain as well violently crack down on protests. what makes the situation in libya different from the u.s. perspective to warrant our involvement? isms it's the scale of casualties, i believe. from what we can gather, as you know, the reports are conflicting and fragmentary, and unreliable at some levels, but it appears that maybe thousands have been killed by gadhafi's attacks. each time it's found that the friends -- we've had an ability