and baster a he is a policy advisor for oxfam and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right gentlemen this is cross talk means you can jump in anytime you want to go to very broadly and then go very specific to the middle east i'd like to go to joel first the united states accounts for two thirds of all. exported arms in the world are more arms creating a more stable world or a more destabilized world or you don't have it you don't see a direct correlation between the two. well i don't see particular direct correlation i would that would note i know one of the common arguments is gee sometimes you supply both sides well where we have such as greece and turkey we haven't had conflict between greece and turkey since world war two which is basically when we started working with both of their militaries similarly in the case of egypt and israel. after the seventy three war when when egypt basically said change suppliers from the soviet union qua russia to the united states again we've had a stabilizing influence i think on both sides it's very hard to find much in the