what the constraints are of the patriot act and pfizer court. we are watching a big change happen. host: deborah joining us on the independent line from florida. gordon adams, professor at the school of international service. caller: good morning. i would like to know when the u.s. became the kgb of the world. why do we need to take on all the problems of the middle east when there is no way we can resolve their religious issues? guest: that is a $640 billion question. over the 30 or 40 years i have spent in the national security establishment, we've always had a rhetoric internally and even with the public dominated by the view that we were the indispensable nation, the one country that everyone relied on to bring order out of chaos, maintain stability, prevent anarchy around the world.