ramona, william laurence is a professor of international relations at the american university. and they for me as diplomats who served in north africa the hell and the middle east enjoys going to washington dc. thanks for your patience, miss lawrence. i asked the same question of the palestinian human rights lawyer earlier in the day. so if i'm going to ask the same thing again because it's been condemnation, all round, evidence submitted by the p. a and al jazeera to the international criminal court, and the american secretary of state says, and i quote, we are looking for an independent credible investigation. when that investigation happens, we will follow the facts wherever they lead is a straightforward as that the question to him was, is it that straightforward from an american perspective? know what blinking was doing was he was answering a question at a press conference in los angeles that an american summit. and he went out ahead of what the position of the united states was at the time. and let me say that all of the countries have been changing their position, for ex