let's bring in national affairs correspondent for rolling stone magazine tim dickinson. time now. this criticism that these senators were laying on president obama comes after they were meeting with moammar gadhafi just months before. what do you make of that. what should we take from the story? >> all this is going down the memory hole. gadhafi was our man in north africa. the signature of success, diplomatic success of the bush administration, we scared saddam and scared him straight. the bush policy and the obama policy was one of engagement, one of offering endeucement to get gadhafi to live up to his commitments to give up his wmd and crackdown on insurgents, we call them rebels today in benghazi and eastern libya. that was part of theest. there's plenty of hypocrisy to go around, but certainly the three amigos went off to gadhafi's rather and had a grand ole time conveying what you were saying. in the hopes of sweetening the relationship. far from standing up for american families who lost loved ones in the lockerbie bombings, they were offering public relations ad