and i think the president was right to be cautious, but still questions remain about what s the goal, what are the costs, what are the consequences and terms of engagement and outcome? is it hypocritical for the u.s. to be engaged militarily in libya but not in some of the other countries like bahrain oremen? ivory coast, crises everywhere in the world. he made a case for the imminency of this but there s imminent crises elsewhere. did you think gadhafi was going to slaughter tens of thousands of fellow libyans in ben gasy? we don t know, and i guess the president wasn t willing to wait and find out, but i think real questions can be asked was this an imminent crisis. we just don t know that. it s pretty breath taking to see over the last three months how the whole middle east african region has exploded. someone like yourself who has watched this for a long time, did you anticipate these kinds of things? not only i did an tis pate it but people in the square didn t anticip