presence in the boonies in yemens. maybe there's an example there for syria, maybe there's a slight window not just to declare a cease-fire, which is a good thing, and access for humanitarian aid, but to find an end game. and the end game, it seems to me, should be the departure of bashar and somehow the creation of a functioning unity government, which might even include alowhites, bashar's tribe. but one of the good things about that, should that happen is, if we can break syria away from iran, that puts additional pressure on iran in addition to sanctions, which are succeeding. we should give success a chance in iran, to force the government in iran to abandon its nuclear policy. and, you know, so i see some optimism, but we have to keep the use, the potential use of military force on the table. david ignatius, someone i read carefully in "the washington post," has a piece today where he says the only time the iranian government has ever agreed to do anything is when the possibility of military