Thank you, Chair, and thank you to both of our guests. We're lucky to have the benefit of your knowledge and experience on this question.
Dr. Welsh, first of all, I was most interested in your comments about the Libyan mission and the concerns about what you called the backlash. We experienced it here as a party. We are now the official opposition. In opposition we supported the initial mission to Libya, but by the September date we're concerned about the very things you talked about in terms of mission creep, the regime change aspects, and other concerns that arose.
Are there any mechanisms you would recommend to avoid this kind of problem? We saw it. It was exasperating to us to support the notion of the international community's responsibility to protect, and then see nations, and NATO itself, as you say, extending the targets through different bodies, and also statements by defence ministers or governments about regime change throughout this.
Is there any mechanism that can stop it? NATO is involved, countries are involved, so when the leaders of these countries keep talking about it, it seems that it's then a NATO problem. Could you comment on that? Is there any mechanism that could be used to hold that back?