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Mark? sure it is. there are some historical echos. you were talking about history. sometimes a president can look in history and find a little bit of guidance at a moment like this. let me mention, too, 1954, the shah was driven off his throne. there was a reformer, the united states feared that he was too pro communist and he might do some anti-american things. they staged a countercoup, brought the sha h-back to power and the result was we had a reliable government for about three decades. but needless to say, no reform. and finally, that led to the government we now have in iran. the opposite case would be ronald reagan in 1986. ferdinand marcos had been essentially the dictator of the philippines since the mid 1960s. there was a wave of support for the reform candidate. the generals were waivering. ronald reagan, you know, if you observe the caricature, you ....