point. >> to that point, colonel, in your opinion moving forward, do you think these tensions can be deescalated with iran without military action, these sanctions that we believe are forthcoming could be enough? what do you see moving forward? >> i would love to be hopeful. i would love to say everything will be diffused, but iran will be painted into a corner and they're going to lash out because they know if they do something like shooting down a global hawk, they will get a reaction, and they will portray themselves as being strong to their own people. having said that, there are several offramps that are possible in this particular situation where tensions could be defused. the question is will iran be willing to take those offramps and will the united states also be willing to do that? i don't think both sides are ready to do that yet. >> thank you to both of you,