we will hear from jeffrey mankoff. any thoughts or comments?vertakingpassions the middle east have been building for a long time. there are a number of sources. you have faye traumatized societies that have chafed under the rule of the assad government, the saddam hussein government in iraq, and the like. governments have not provided opportunities to people that havealluded education that cracked down on avenues for personal freedom or expression. you have radical ideologies aout what is important response to these regimes. the middle east is going of profoundriod uncertainty and transportation. i wonder. i don't think we can see quite how that will end, regardless if there is a to the max solution to this particular phase of the next couple of months, or not. talking with the russian pullout of syria, but the headline in cbs news saying, five years on, how the syrian the world.anged march 2011, the arab spring. you think that president putin had any awareness -- was there an awareness of the significance of the timing of the pull out, the fif