the fact is that moammar qadhafi was at the gates, benghazi was going to slaughter thousands of people, we brought about his downfall and walked away. if we had walked away from japan and germany after world war ii, it would have collapsed. if we had walked away from korea where we still have 38,000 troops, it would have collapsed. if we had walked away from bosnia, it would have collapsed. i'm telling you, my colleagues, we walked away. this president and this administration did not do the things necessary after the fall of qadhafi to build a democracy, and the people of libya wanted it, and i can tell you that for sure because i was there. one of the great tragedies of the 21st century is our failure to act in a way to help the libyan people transition from all those years of a brutal leader. by the way, who also was responsible for the deaths of americans in a bar in berlin, responsible for the shootdown of an airliner, and yet we should have left him in power. sure we should have. so isil is operating in lebanon, yemen and egypt and other radical islamic groups like boko haram in a

they topple qadhafi in libya. we are more at risk because there' s a failed state there. isis, a third of libya pledges allegiance to isis. now they want to topple assad. what is going to come from that? my prediction is isis will control the whole region. we have to get away from for policy that is interventionist. does not mean no interventions, i am calling for less intervention. right now but we have is most of the candidates want to be involved everywhere all the time . perpetual war has not been answered. sen. paul: do you believe isis needs to be destroyed? josh: su -- sen. paul: sure. s an ideology, if you just another generation springs up. the ultimate victory is going to come when sunni islam steps forward with boots on the ground, the army has to be a sunni muslim army. they are never going to accept americans policing or garrisoned they will only accept it when religion. we are a peaceful religion. in order to do that , itw will not happen if american win. what will the islamists say? the crusades are back, here are infidels. we killed most of the al qaeda le

secretary clinton was gleeful when qadhafi was torn apart. josh: regime change was talked about. was this the biggest area for the democrats of contrast? chris: i think so. this gets at a problem that campaign, a lot of democrats see her as too hawkish and easy to use force, willing to talk about regime change. i' m not sure sanders or o' malley obama did. josh: were you surprised that other things were not brought up in the debate? foreign policy is dominating the discussion. democrats have been talking about climate change in energy, things along those lines. it did not come up. andy: income inequality came tangentially when sanders tried to bring it up. the economic issues that are talked about much. moving forward but this is the last and only democratic primary in new hampshire. there will be one more in south hampshire primary. the dnc sets the schedule, what thank you for joining us. after the debate was the news 9 set. people are working harder than ever, but the everyday cost of perscriptions, child care, or even just buying groceries can be a stretch for too many famili

others have opposed opposed taking out saddam hussein, opposed removing qadhafi. as president, how were you weigh the challenges and the balance between the issues of human rights versus stability? >> the bigger issue is to have foresight. a sod is an example. the uprising, we did not start it. the uprising, everyday syrians were not jihadist but largely made up of everyday syrians who rebelled against a minority within the shia minority that they felt have been brutal and discriminatory. they rose up. some of them are syrian army defectors. when that began i repeatedly warned that if we did not identify non- jihadists within the vacuum would be created in the aftermath, aftermath, and that would be filled the way that cancer are always felt, by radical jihadists made up largely of foreign fighters which is exactly what happened. they were either defeated, killed, or exiled. the only group the group were jihadist groups. isys took off. the result is that vacuum has been filled by this group and has used syria as an operational space to spread, to grow in libya, gr

. >> you joined the senate in voting to get rid of qadhafi. >> sreenivasan: she also lambasted the candidate leading republican opinion polls, donald trump, for his suggestion that banning muslims from entering the u.s. could stop terrorism. >> mr. trump has a great capacity to use bluster and bigotry to inflame people and to make them think there are easy answers to very complex questions. >> sreenivasan: clinton also said republican calls for closing the door on syrian refugees are wrong. >> i don't think a halt is necessary. we need to have an increased vetting and screening. >> sreenivasan: joining me now from washington for further analysis of the debate is jon greenberg from "politifact." jon, during the discussion on terrorism and the islamic state group, hillary clinton made a statement about the impact of donald trump's idea to ban muslims from entering the u.s. >> he is becoming isis' best recruiter. they are going to people showing videos of donald trump insulting islam and muslims in order to recruit more radical jee addists. >> sreenivasan: any truth to that? >> well, i think th

he emphatically supported hillary clinton and toppling qadhafi a in libya. think that made no sense. in syria, obama and hillary clinton and senator rubio are repeating the same as stakes they made in libya. mark: we will talk more about that conversation later. attacking both from the left and the right in the politics and policy of this. has he threaded the needle between nonintervention and neoconservative? clip that we displayed is reflective of what his comments are more broadly. if you read those comments that can be rand paul. i get that he is trying to thread the needle of trying to be strong but right now i was struck by this interview and by previous things he said. about how far into the restraint corner, noninterventionist corner he is putting himself. similar to aery george bush said before 9/11 when he was a candidate in 2000 and a more humble foreign policy. intellectually interesting which is that intervention overseas has made us weaker. i think that marco rubio is a much more classical neoconservative, america's strength of riot. i do not k

the removal of a al-assad in syria and others are taking out saddam hussein and opposed removing qadhafio do you weigh out the charges and the balance between the issues of human rights versus stability? >> we need to have foresight about what these things will mean if we do nothing about them and al-assad is an example of them. we didn't start the uprising. the uprising was everyday civilians not jihad is to initially it was made up of mostly sudanese who rebuild against a minority that they felt had been brutal and discriminatory. i repeatedly warned if we didn't identify the non- jihad is to get help in power the vacuum would be created and would created and would be filled only vacuums are always filled in the middle east made up of foreign fighters and that's what happened they were either defeated or killed or exiled. then isis took off into vacuum has been filled by the group and used as an operational space to spread into iraq and they are beginning to grow in afghanistan to the complete conducting attacks on lebanon and they're coming out and they've been very clear that the glo