what we need to make sure we re doing is understanding what our interests are and advancing them and explaining them well and effect ily, both to the governments and the people of these countriecountries. that s a lot to chew on, but essentially, we re the gluing factor in that region that has relationships across all these different countriecountries, in israel, who is very nervous rooi right now about the chaos. it s important to remember just a month ago, prime minister netanyahu called the prime minister of turkey to repair a relationship that had been frayed are to the edges over a conflict from a few years ago of a boat traveling to gaza from turkey. so as the u.s. weighed in heavily on that, and we re going to have to mix signals, but they re going to have to be consistent to it the people and the region. joel, thanks. i want to go back to richard engel, who s in turkey right now at the scene of those protests. richard, let me ask you this.