does internally, what he does against israel, against jordan and turkey. if there is a direct attack on a nato al lie, nato may be more involved than they have been to date. i think you're right to point out that iran has a lot surrogates and probsys in the region, their own internal intelligence services, the mois could be in force, as well as hezbollah, which said they will fight to defend syria to the death. >> spider, i want to ask you a common sense question a lot of people have about asking me. the u.s. has been talking about the strike for days. syria has to be listening. assad has to be listening to this. every day that the united states waits here, doesn't that give assad a chance to prepare? >> oh, it does. what it really tells you is the limits of american influence in that part of the world, very much degraded over the course of years. what we say is not as significant in terms of what we do and the preparations we take