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Why not do it in syria? >> we shouldn't do it in syria, we shouldn't have in libya, either. in libya we went in with no clear military mission and nobody is sear to this day, what are we doing in libya, getting rid of qaddafi, arm the rebels, trying to train up the rebels? in the case of syria, we don't need a force, but what we do have are diplomatic, economic and political weapons which we have yet to use and i keep looking back, when i was in the reagan administration and president reagan had the same kind of thing developing in eastern europe, what did he do? he used economic, diplomatic, ...

Somalia, north africa, parts of iraq and the the same time that expansion has occurred they are watching the united states government help to destroy its allies in places like egypt and libya, which will create a much more open operating environment for al-qaida. yes, the threat today is both larger in terms of numbers and much wider in geographical distribution. jenna: that is scary to hear. anything in the wikileaks release that is actually adding more fuel to the fire? >> i think it shows to some extent that george tennant and other people in the bush administration were deceiving congress ...

And geography. the talk of cutting any defense spending is nonsense. we are up to our neck in wars. as i said in destroeug egypt and destroying qaddhafi, at least helping those people destroy those governments we have increased the costs that american will entail to do the jobs the egyptian service was doing for us, the pakistani service was doing for us. jenna: you say go on the offense, hunt those people down. we still don't have osama bin laden or a few of the key leaders. does it take getting those key leaders before we could win the battle. >> even more than that. it would help to kill os...

Own people but he was a good friend to the united states and by unceremoniously pulling the rug out of him, what has that done? saudi arabia, that's the main game here. our main priority, our main vital interest in the entire region is not libya, it's not egypt. it's absolutely the saudi peninsula and making sure that the oil flows through the strait of hormuz, otherwise, this revolution will eventually end up in saudi arabia and in thattenins -- peninsula. if there's an unstable situation and it feats the price of oil, you know what you're looking at, $5-gallon of gas is going to be a bargain...