an anchor liz united kingdom playing a buccaneer enroll in the 21st-century world will get much less traction. i believe, chairman, that the foundations of the u.k.-u.s. relationship remained extremely strong. i do wish to mention three headwinds. first of all, both the u.k. and the u.s. are suffering from an understandable sense of fatigue and caution after iraq and afghanistan. it is obvious the ground intervention is out of question in the foreseeable future. but the libya experience shows us the limits of winning wars from the air and syria shows us that very often things get worse, not better when we fail to intervene at all. i am talking about overall policy, not just the military. we do need to construct a -- some new models of intervention and we should do this collaboratively with the u.s. and france. the u.s. administration worries about the debates on identity which we are having here in the u.k.. that made their position very clear on the issue of british membership in the european union. their interest is in an active internationalist economically liberal u.k. which is i