i personally just got back from a trip with miss plotkin as well as a couple other members of the middle east and while there are certainly challenges, there are also opportunities there. there are protests in iraq and lebanon . against the irani and involvement. we had never seen before. people in the region are beginning to understand that iran's influence is malignand undermining their interest . there is an opportunity here because in addition to containing isis that are other largest goal is to stop iran destabilizing influence from syria to lebanon to iraq to yemen, across. how can we contain them to mark and we build on that and get an opportunity. also the concern about iran has given us a historic opportunity to try to deal with these h israeli-palestinian crisis area it's an enormous crisis in the middle east. there's now a much more connection between the arab states and israel because of their concernabout iran. this , is there a way to build on, to create a more stable middle east. so those are the three broad policy areas that i'm interested in but a huge part of this is me