notion has been that america's political differences end at the water's edge. i would also suggest that he may not be familiar with what our suggestions to the germans have been. and i think sometimes back home, there's a desire to superimpose whatever idealogical arguments are taking place back home onto a very complicated situation in europe. you know, the situation in europe is a combination of things. you've got situations where some countries did have undisciplined fiscal practices, public debt. you had some countries like spain whose problems actually arose out of housing speculation and problems in private sector