get the 12 days, the discussion of the timeline out of our discussion. i think this should be event and conditions based, as we say,and not time driven. by pushing that, it generates panic, disheartens people and emboldens our opponents. so i think that's part of it. this is a complex operation. i just know you've got planners working hard, building contingencies. success in an already disastrous situation is if nothing worse occurs. that's where we are right now. then when you think about all the other issues to include the chaos outside the wire, how quickly that could go bad. good god, a suicide bomber could walk into the middle of these