a quick question before i get to the bigger one i think this is probably for you secretary feltmen. i read that the head of the venezuelaia oil isn't prohibited from shipping oil. >> it is technically correct that they're not prohibit pd. it's still morally wrong to be doing to use in a machine slaughtering serbians. but it also isn't the same of -- >> that's a conversation for another day. but one of the things we can talk about is how to introduce third-party support for the assad regime and this brought that to light. i want to posit a story, a view of it to you and see what you both think about it. and here's the way we look at something in a country that for many, many years has been kind of a transit point and haven for terrorists, especially damn discussion has been kind of the hub of all that. in addition a state sponsor of terrorists itself. now the people there say we want to get rid of the guy that unracethis place. there's a lot of internal divisions. we talked about the complexities of all of that. but in the midst of all, including about regime change and a change of d