especially now that it seems more here at home or paying attention to, to help us with the subject. dana mcadam, executive director of the ron paul institute joins. thank you for joining me, daniel scotty, how are you? you know, i have to say this is all in the week following this big announcement of us pulling out of afghanistan bite and celebrating that. he's getting out, that's what i think is what's interesting about the environment we're in now, because people are looking at this going or what exactly is the u. s. supposed to be protecting by continuing their presence in this region? i mean, whatever that is, is it enough to keep the rate of $4000.00 troops around? well, the question is rightly, what are they doing there? they are not there at the invitation of the syrian government. that is to be sure, and neither are they at the, at the invitation of the iraqi government, the rocky prime minister was very unequivocal. he condemned very strongly the latest series of us attacks on syria and iraq near the border. you also have the rocky parliament that has voted last year and continues to d