de-escalate the situation? >> right now from a military perspective i like the idea they put forward called sentinel, sort of a maritime security initiative which would involve other nations not just american military forces to increase our visibility on what's going on in and around the strait you would have surveillance and reconnaissance platforms in the air, maybe more maritime, escorting of convoys or at least monitoring of the shipping traffic. i think those are good ideas and i think ideas hopefully that other countries will be able to join the united states in doing because right now we don't have a lot of credibility on the world stage when it comes to dealing with iran. the threat that they're posing, the irgc to the free flow of oil, should energize other nations to want to get onboard. that is a good thing. diplomatically speaking, ana, i don't see any good answers. as matthew laid out there is not a lot of incentive on either side to come to the table. the other thing pompeo said in the clip was, hey, we want to see them sit at the table and talk to us.