in the case of direct and -- in gohanistan, we were right to in.istake and the obama years to remake afghanistan. we overreached in retrying -- in trying to remake the middle east in our image. the split between shia and sunni and so forth. we tried to do too much of the wrong thing. i would argue is not that we give up on foreign-policy but we do more in asia. that is where the great powers are and it is where the united states is -- has tools that can do a lot of good. i would rebalance our foreign-policy away from the middle east and stop trying to remake a part of the world coming back to what we were saying about syria that i think is in for a prolonged, difficult era and that will resist the efforts of the u.s. to recast it in our image. tavis: before i come back to the master policy and underperforming at home, i am titillated by your phrase, to remake the world in our own image. i concur with that. i have seen too many examples where we do that. much to our own peril. what is it about us these years later even what we are up against at home