but this notion that it is somehow america's responsibility, our opportunity, whatever you want to call it, to intervene in every crisis everywhere makes no sense, and i'm not an isolationist. we should be doing more in economic international cooperation, helping haiti, fighting aids internationally, but there's a gross exaggeration of what we can do. this is not 1947, '48 when we were the sole survivor, so the answer is we should not be engaged militarily in nearly as many places, and let me just briefly, chris, we make this mistake. the military is great at keeping bad things from happening. but the military can't make good things happen. we have too often used our military to try to make good things happen in societies foreign to us, and it never works out. >> do you ever think through what we're talking about when we talk about countries like syria, libya, we say secretary clinton does this fine job of saying, we call on the side to compromise with the rebels. you're basically asking the guy to commit suicide. you're asking the guy to give up so the rebels can grab him, drag him through the streets, find him in a sewer, whatever. what does it mean when we say to a government we don't like, we think you should give up.