I will say that I am most pleased that the support - air-strikes, etc. - that we provided to the anti-Qaddafi forces have served to endear us to the forces of the Arab Spring, that great and spontaneous flowering of the democratic spirit in North Africa and the Mid-East.

I note similar encouraging displays in Cairo and see that the State Department have issued notices advising Americans abroad in the newly-liberated regions of similar celebrations throughout the ummah.