. >> we conclude with bernard henri-levy the french philosopher and author who played a role in the war that overthrew qaz avi. his book about it is called war without love >> i come back to france with the intuition that these guys having been able to do that, with bare hands, if we gave them some real weapons, they would be able to take-- and they went to sarkozy and i told him that and he said okay, let's think. i told him why should i not bring to you the guys who did that, the guys with bare hands. it is what we did. >> robert rubin, gillian tet an bernard heni-levi when we continue. >> funding for charlie rose was provided by the following: captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in neyork city, this is charlie rose. >> european leaders gathered today at a pivotal summit in brussels to tackle the debt cries i all of the eu countries except britain signed a pact with formal agreements to run minimal budget deficits. prime minister david cameron argued the deal was not in his country's interests. the divisions were clear in remarks by european leaders after the

who is bernard henri level vicious why is he a prominent figure in france? >> one of those only in france stories. levyher/public intellectual, for 35 years, he is a prominent figure in france, always on television, puts out a book on the year, occupies a christopher hitchens' like space. during the '70s, he played significant role in helping move the french left away from a orthodox marxism. ever since, he has been a sort of spokesman for humanitarian intervention, he has been in afghanistan and darfur, sort of a proto george clooney kind of role. >> also fair to say he is mocked in many circles in france or become so in the last couple of decades? >> yeah. i mean, the thing that's amazing about this story is here is a guy who is --s who public image has completely consumed his intellectual reputation. a year ago, he was most in the news for a kind of public tug-of-war between his mistress and his wife. >> yes. >> this is a -- a guy who has written two books about being mocked in public. so, yeah, no, he was a man who was at 63, in danger of dissolving whole fly his caricature. when he appears on tv,