kissinger a year to get the size and shape of the table decided. it took another several years before they even came to some kind of an agreement. i don't want it to be years. we don't have years in syria. but the point i'm making is that diplomacy is tough, slogging, slow work, and hard work. but we're beginning to see the shaping of how you might potentially get somewhere and we are always in the process of re-evaluating whether this there's more we can do, should do. we'll work with congress. we're working internally to figure out if there's a way to get more response from the russians, more response from assad. >> you, it's no secret, were advocating for, for want of a better term, a more muscular way of dealing with this, providing different kinds of aid to the rebels, providing weapons in some cases to the rebels.