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Response and to the earlier point, the fact is the africans can't do it themselves. there's been talk for two decades about creating an africa rapid deployment force and they haven't been able to bring it together, provide training, cohesion, command and control and as a result there is no local or regional alternative. >> africans -- it's opportunism on the part of france to go into mali when there was a plan by the african union and united nations security council. the united states nations security council resolution did not mandate france to go in. with the history of france in africa, afr...

Intensely now. >> exactly. >> and i think one of the reasons i think it's important to kind of -- it may seem weird, why are we relitigating libyan intervention. >> because of the impact. >> and because of the first time around it never got litigated, right? and what happened -- and what's weird about the whole benghazi issue to me, this is kienlds nd weird, it's a way of talking about the libyan intervention now after the fact because we have these deaths and this tragedy and this cascade of effects pause we never talked about it the first time. >> but we're not talking about it now either, c...

Thank you for joining us this morning. that was fascinating. there were so many different perspectives there that i had not been anticipating. rooting for an american intervention over the french. hillary clinton's legacy as secretary of state. this is just one part of it. let's look at a broader picture after this. twins. i didn't see them coming. i have obligations. cute obligations, but obligations. i need to rethink the core of my portfolio. what i really need is sleep. introducing the ishares core, building blocks for the heart of your portfolio. find out why 9 out of 10 large professio...

We've seen all over africa from the u.s. africa command. 50,000 libyans have been killed out of this intervention. the whole region of north africa has been destabilized. there are 1700 militias running around libya today. the u.s. ambassador has been killed. the united nations is calling for a full review. what the united states need is to have a review of its whole africa command and to withdraw its military forces. there's no need for the united states to be engaged with africa through the military. africa needs dentists, students, they need engineers, they need teachers, they need doctors,...

Because that's the place where the heat is now on because we have an explicit western intervention, 2300 french troops. do you think the state department is -- what is their perspective on the french intervention in mali and what they are doing there. is this worrying the obama administration? is there support for this? >> well, obviously the united states is providing refueling facilities for the french warplanes so, yes, the united states is playing a role already. i think there are no comfortable choices and that's one of the realities across the region today, whether it's in mali or syria,...