and then it makes you realize you know, what bernard-henri levy's role was.he was like a screen, pretending that history is about human rights and so on but he was not only about saving benghazi from the inhabitants and of course that was of course a difficult question to save them from slaughter or oppression but it was not only about this. it was also possibly about erasing tracks of dirty money and that is why he is so useful. >> yeah, it seems like along the same lines with what derrick and jade have said. friedman is part of a long line of these apologists, going back to colonialism and imperialism where you need someone who can speak the language of the vast majority of earthlings who are against these policies and make them sound like they are in the interest of the majority. i think friedman played that role really well. you know, you don't even have to go back, just going back to the cold war. [inaudible] cultural freedom that the cia funded to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. who knows what the numbers are? they weren't looking for argum