at this from the perspective of self-defense not only within the region but in terms of the united states why what kind of assurances would they want there has been talk yesterday also of pompei zero in terms of u.s. troop removal pompei a wouldn't really speak to that and that seems like a rather. drastic measure but after today could that even be possible couple of months ago when this was all of the making someone said to me well this u.s. president could could actually be one president that would be actually interested in bringing those troops back home and let's sell that as a victory what would that mean for the overall security posture of the u.s. in the region i think that's a different story so just making that argument and saying we will reduce the troop numbers by half for example would be something that the u.s. could do but it will show a sign of weakness as well and at a time where and i think we shouldn't forget the overall strategic environment in which the u.s. is playing there there are it is in a min and yet in a war it's like situation with china in many ways or in