No ‘cookie-cutter’ approach to conflicts:

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What is the danger of thinking, ‘It worked in Libya, why not Syria?’
I think you can take those lessons and apply them somewhere else, but you can’t take it as a cookie cutter and think it will work. The world cannot be looked at that way. I don’t want to be glib, but one’s in Africa, the other is in the Middle East. One borders on Turkey, one of the NATO countries. Iraq is on the other side. That changes the approach right there. I think we’d be fools to try to apply the last conflict to the next one. That would be wrong. But we can learn from it.

How important is it that Saif Gadhafi gets a fair trial, given how his father, Moammar, was killed in custody without any due process?
To me you can’t paint all of the people of Libya with the brush of the gang that killed Gadhafi. I don’t support the killing of Gadhafi, I believe justice should prevail. However I can’t be surprised by it, either. In a moment of heat, some of them let themselves go too far. It’s not appropriate, and I’m not condoning it.

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