From my perspective, because we worked out of Naples...we worked with the Partnership for Peace with some nations, especially in the Balkans. We worked the Mediterranean dialogue, talking to Egypt. We were talking to Libya in some ways before, and there is the Istanbul initiative, which includes some of the GCC countries.
The biggest point I kept offering to people was that we needed to look beyond those boxes, and let's agree to increase the dialogue with whoever wants to talk to us, and then define a relationship that asks what relationship we want with NATO. Is it one of cooperation? Is it a closer relationship, or is it just some exchange of information?
I certainly believe we should continue. The difficult part is to define that relationship and ask whether it is an acceptable relationship with all 28 nations. We can work through it, through diplomacy and dialogue. Certainly talking to Egypt and Tunisia while all this was going on was an important part of it, and the dialogue we set up to conduct the mission in Libya will serve, in my opinion, the greater good of the movement of illegal weapons, drugs, and migrants in the whole Mediterranean area to begin with. So we have set that in place.
When I left, I said they've created some dialogue with people they didn't talk to before, and they should continue. I certainly hope the wisdom will be to continue this dialogue.