non-lethal aids for more moderate group. he s talking about ambulances, generators, search-and-rescue equipment, and we ve talked about doing that, but we are absolutely terrible at implementation, actually delivering this kind of aid. if they handle the non-lethal aid well, maybe you move into providing weapons. we re so cautious now, we re leaving the field wide open to the jihadists, and are now really dominant there. so you think that the time for diplomacy is still present with syria, political solutions aren t in the past? i think you need to strengthen the opposition on the ground. you saw this week that the regime that president assad thinks we re so afraid of the jihadists that switch sides and back him. we have to act in syria, you know, and early guest was talking about the long, complicated conflicts, a big theme of my book is that we don t have to respond to every foreign policy chalgening with