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Got to be fairly ecstatic over it. we're helping to hopefully top a dictator and support democracy in the middle east, isn't that what you guys wanted? >> well, i agree, if we had not acted when we did, the catastrophe in benghazi would have been tremendous. i think servicemen and women participating in this should be proud they prevented that from happening. i also think there are knock-on affects in the region. i think syrian protests and others, they see the international community in libya and perhaps it gives them hope that people in the world are actually standing with them. i do think w...

The responsibility of a third war, if our allies can handle it, isn't that a great thing? >> i think what we need to do is be clear with the american people, if there's a strong u.s. interest here, what are we doing to satisfy that interest or advance that interest. you'll see in each case of an upprizing here, we've taken a lot of time evaluating the situation as though we'ree that for democracy in these countries is in our interest. or is it broader than just the individual circumstances in one city or one place. or is this much more narrow and, in fact, there aren't great u.s. interests at ...

I think in the end this is a movement on the right side of history. it's an empowerment of the public that's not going to go away. if we're not on the side of that movement, we're going to pay a price, because in my own judgment, the success of the mostly peaceful revolutions. think about this, not just in egypt and tunisia, but also in libya started as peaceful demonstrations. in yemen, despite all of the weapons that are available, the slogans, peaceful, peaceful, those are the slogans in syria. this is, you know, exactly the nightmare of bin laden who wants to try to create change through m...

World. and obviously a lot could have m happened and the rest of the world would have seen it. it's impossible, even with all the restrictions that are being applied by the gadhafi regime, it's impossible for people to see it. and the pressure would have mounted on the international community to intervene. and if we didn't, we would have failed the people of libya, but more importantly, you know, it's not just certainly a moral issue for the international community and was done right because it was through the u.n. with support from the arab league, with arab public opinion largely supportive ...

We have got that up in two hours. we knocked his things out in two days. so, let's be honest. we and the other countries, particularly france and britain, we stopped the slaughter. hillary is right. we stopped it. good. what happens from now on. >> bill, we stopped it in eastern libya. we didn't stop it in western libya. >> bill: there is no slaughter going on now. there is no slaughter in tripoli right now. >> how do you know? >> bill: we have -- we know. >> the point is that notion that you can, in the long term, accomplish this objective, without regime change, is ridiculous. >> bill: no, y...