they serve two masters, the federal government and also their state. they provide a lot of homeland security protection that we don't even know about. they come under a ton of pressure, for example, what if there was a pandemic flu? who are you going to call? not ghostbusters. you call the national guard, that's going to help you shut down your borders so you can distribute medicines appropriately. >> why do we worry about a flu that affects pandas? >> the answer, would we go to germany if germany was attacked? yes. would we go to the philippines? yes. would we go to japan? we have to be treaty. there are places, but we're not going to go into africa, into the caucasus anymore. >> i have another point that i thought of last night that i want to bring up. >> thank god you took your time back. >> one of the things you talked about yesterday is we should use more drones and i agree with that. here's the thing i was wrestling with. from where are you going to launch those drones? they can't fly like a 747 halfway across the united states. they have to be launched from