branding make it easier to do something if necessary in one of those places or another place yet to be determined? >> very much case-by-case. we have different capabilities in different places. what's happening now, for example, in jordan and syria is part of the middle east. these are three different parts of the middle eastern region. we have a different approach. we have very frosty relations with syria and have for quite some time. very limited assets and capabilities. and there's no need at this point to conduct military operations. there is most certainly brutality. but that doesn't mean that right now we need to be protecting the population from some slaughter, such as was truly the case in libya. >> what about yemen? it's of deep concern for american intelligence folks. what's happening in yem yemen?