Russ Feingold actually said...

the only really effective way to address this challenge is for the region to address it together.

I'd just like to point out that I think we've been particularly good on this one.

It's important to remember the context of that country's experience, with an extremely bloody civil war in the 1990s.

And you've mentioned the Tuareg, most of whom do not share al-Qaeda's ideological goals, either.