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Multi-year nation-building exercising as it did in iraq and afghanistan and this was purely a humanitarian military intervention. what happens if you start to see similar crackdowns taking ple inyr,hi h atrg ecen fxtme rcul crackdowns against its sunni population. you don't have energy interests in that country. the united states isn't really in it for the energy in libya but that creates a contradiction in u.s. policy moving forward. i think the u.s. is most concerned about the situation in the persian gulf region, particularly the potential for iran to pursue destabilization campaign there a...

Information without appropriate authority. that is what bradley manning is being charged with. and look forward to a prosecution. he's entitled, you know, to a full defense and his day in court. we'll see what happens there. but certainly we are in a situation where going back to my own experience in the gulf war and in kosovo, leaders do in fact play to this 24-hour, seven-day-a-week audience that they have. there's an information war going on as well as an actual shooting war. it's a very, very complex operating environment. >> okay. listen, i'm hopeful to be able to continue the conversatio...

We act consistent with our interest and our values. we become stronger and we attract partners. when we act inconsistent with our values, our credibility is undermined. >> how do you reconcile, i think, a fairly admirable philosophy that you just articulated with the inherent hypocrisy, for instance, of our policies in the middle east where we're pro bebl rebel in a country like libya but we're pro dictator in countries like saudi arabia. >> i don't think they're inconsistent at all. what we're pushing for is political, economic and social reform across the region. secretary clinton made a ver...

Interest through the restrictive treatment that he's had at the brig. as i said in an op-ed in the guardian today, when you have a situation where the pentagon has to explain why a u.s. soldier in custody is standing naked in a jail block, it's a policy that certainly begs for an urgent review. >> you have been very aggressive in indicting bradley manning relative to the risks that he may have c convicted of the lea that he's accused of. at the same time we see in the associated press, a senior gadhafi aide was told to take bodies from a morgue and place them at the scene of the damage for dis...