tehran of a yearning to come in from the cold, to come back from this insane course that the country has set upon as a theocracy. and there is a lot of movement there that i think will be very excited about the last few weeks. but i still maintain we shouldn't get too excited because there's a long way to go. and i still think that we can look at this opening as a dramatic moment but it's preceded by weeks and months of failing to see what's really going on in the middle east, of not hearing the music of the arab street, and i don't trust them to hear the music of the persian street either. i just think this administration needs to really focus on the trends of the arab spring and be much more attentive to the yearnings for democracy and how to get there. they're too distracted. we were talking whatever happened to the fifth asia? i feel it's dizzy to watch how this administration is spinning around in its priorities. >> but there is almost certainly no taste among the american people at this moment for any conversation about there is a