ran the risk of gadhafi regime forces regaining turf and possibly committing war crime against benghazi, a city of 700,000. days after the intervention was launched, if you recall, president obama gave a speech and mentioned and compared benghazi to charlotte, north carolina. a vibrant and vital city here in the united states, but obviously a huge population center. so the concerns again were that not enough was done in the aftermath of the intervention itself. but as the secretary mentioned today, a lot was done during her tenure in the state department, namely helping to remove the chemical weapons that were still remnants of the gadhafi regime, and also prepare that country in a fraught post gadhafi era for new elections. >> a lot of people were terrified that libya -- no one has really talked about yet. >> i would yus say if if we had not intervened in libya, we could have looked back and seen this was also a missed