harman. i appreciate so much the careful and gentle way you celebrated his life. on to syria, our leverage is very small there. iran is actively helping the bashar government, so far as we know, and a few other regimes are. but we have no one on the ground. we have the social media is severely restricted there. and we could end up seeing in one of the syrian or more of the syrian cities the massacre that we feared would happen in benghazi libya. the irony might be here we are in libya this is a zero sum game. we have a limited number of brain cells, troops and resources to put against all these changes. and the big damage, and actually the big risk to us would be from this massachusetts kerr in se m because the back door from iran and israel. >> yet israeli leaders and the saudis, the other arab leaders