you think about what we heard from the president of the united states? >> a strong case after secretary kerry made a very strong case earlier this week for why the use of these banned chemical weapons cannot go unaccounted for, then the president says it. then it sort of full breaks on again. so i think going to what ivan just said to you, look, the democratic process is at work. who is knocking that? nobody. but you can imagine that is going to be considerably lost on the people in damascus, on the rebels, the opposition, on the iranians, on the north koreans, on the israelis, on just about everybody around that region who is watching. i think it's an extraordinary development. it is a roll of the dice. the president doesn't know whether he's going to win this vote. you guys know much more about the political intrigue in washington than i do. but look at what happened to david cameron who was really raring to go and tweeting just that moment and that morning before he was defeated in the house of parliament. so was his foreign secretary,