from putin in 2013, one of the highest awards a foreign person can receive from russia. are you troubled by that friendship? >> i am, from the perspective we need to be cautious. as fareed laid out very well. we have to be cautious had the -- in the type of relationship we want to try to establish with russia, what that means is, there's nothing wrong with trying to embrace russia in a measured, trust building way, we've not defined what that is, it's dangerous to try to define syria as the testing ground for where we may find a way to cooperate and work together with the russians. that's as dangerous as it can be. we have never had at the operational and the technical level -- we've never worked with the soviets or russia, there's a lot at stake there. syria is not a place you want to do that, there are a number of places where we could engage with russia, and walk down a path that would allow us to have a better more trusting relationship. right there, it's not there, we can't scale and jump right into this.