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And the korean was a war of necessity. and the gulf war. >> how did the korean war end? >> it ended just fine, the sense we liberated the part of korea that had been overtaken. the mistake in the korean war was begin when was was -- began as a war of necessaries zpi then when macarthur went north of the 38th parallel we turned it into a war of choice and became extraordinarily expensive. there's a very high standard particularly given what jane har harman said. the united states is already involved in two, war in iraq and what became the wore in afghanistan when this administration expanded it...

This over and over again about limited brain cells. yes, you're right, bob, that we mostly have our navy in place, although imagine if the straits of hormuz were blocked we might need our navy there. we've got a lot of assets offshore libya. but my point is that brain cells are limited. if we have most of the white house tied up trying to make this come out right, by the way, what about the unrest, the transformation sweeping every country we can name in the greater middle east? >> that's right. jane, actually that's exactly what we want to talk about in the next segment. i think the question ...

From him if it looks like their lives are on the line. i think we have to have a little patience. this has been going on for five days and people are running and screaming as if we already failed. i think a little patience is necessary and is an important interest of ours by the way. what's happening in the middle east is connected to what's going on in libya if we stand by and let a dictator in the region like gadhafi slaughter his people, that's a terrible setback and not in america's interest. >> how do you -- richard haass calls this a war of choice. obviously you don't think so. >> of cou...

Minister of interior people that worked with the previous regime. we are not entirely certain of the shape of the organization so far. i think that one of the important things we need to do is get our diplomatic representation down to benghazi and start dealing directly with the people and get our own assessment of what the opposition is shaping up to become. the question of the vitality of the interest, if i could make one point about what richard said earlier. i would agree that the interest may not be entirely vital. let's not forget that in terms of proportionality here we're not an interv...

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