humanitarian terms, i think those of us who looked at it realized in addition to whatever humanitarian mission we re going to carry out. this was our intervening in a civil war, that we have picked a winner, we had to stay in it until that outcome was guaranteed, and if we didn t, we would suffer the consequences of being the loser. and i think that s where we are now. we have a very uneasy quill lib prey yum, the battlefield is not shifting very much, and here we are looking at our options as to what more could or should we do? what are the options? they re not good, they re quite limited. it s more of the same. hoping that the regime fractures. but you know, i ve been thinking lately, we talk a lot about who are those guys, and we re talking about the opposition. do we want to arm them? we don t know their true identities. i ve come upon a new question in the past week or so, given the staying power of loyalist forces, i m not talking about