you have already suggested the soquel -- social implications of technology that could you take on the broad question? >> okay. i will try that. but this time i'm going to get to that one and go back. the intervention in libya i do think, the international community, not just the united states, is really in a very difficult position because as the tide turns against the rebels, you increasingly confronted the possibility that they would actually be defeated. by the gadhafi regime. and that would have been hugely demoralizing across the region, and it would have -- i mean it was palpable in egypt, not that the egyptians particularly care about libya, oregon that they particularly care about you know, the prospects of the protests in libya but they didn't want protests to be destroyed like that. they just didn't. and so they really was a sense that the protest movements in the region and you know in a sort of strange bedfellows way, the governments that make up the arab league all wanted to take this opportunity to say no, we don't want gadhafi to prevail. we just don't. and perhaps for