two bases in italy. but david gergen, if the united states and its allies projected military force in this part of the world, israel sitting right here, syria, lebanon, jordan, bahrain, what sort of a precedent would that set? >> john, it's a really, really important question. you know, susan rice, i think, as henry reported, hillary clinton remembers that her husband used air power and used it very effectively in the balkans during the 1990s, and it allowed us to get things ended there in a way that i think everybody now looks back upon and says, thank goodness we used the air power. so there is some precedent, but there's this other interesting question. if we were to use air power now, or any military power, to rescue people against a dictator we hate, what if the day now comes in a place like bahrain or yemen where people are rising up against a dictator we like and