and then they would say ok. prime minister netanyahu has agreed to a much lesser temporary halt in settlements. but that has hardly been enough to get the process of negotiations on the block. that is a failure. i do not know if there is an obvious better answer, but it was a failure. you could say it similarly with iran. obama hoped that if he adopted a less confrontational stance towards the regime in tehran, they would be more willing to enter into a negotiation process that would lead to their abandoning their nuclear enrichment program. they did not happen. host: butler, tenn., floyd on the republican line. caller: i'm a republican. you have a couple of callers in before saying the republicans were calling in and saying we are republicans and i cannot truthfully say -- i am a card-