if you haven't seen it yet, jeff bader's article on foreignaffairs.com will give you a really interesting insight into the white house response and his assessments of the crisis response in japan and bilaterally u.s./japan. but i think in japan there's an awful lot of critique going on right now of japan's own government's response to the crisis. i caution all of us outside the country to give it time for the empirical analysis, the political analysis, and the scientific analysis to really run its full course, because these are the kinds of challenges and problems that all of our societies will face. the other piece of this, it's not specific to march 11 events themselves, but of course as those of us who watched japan fully realize that you have to but march 11 event and this last year of reconstruction recovery in the context of japan's broader public policy agenda. i think that's what many of us are hopeful that some of this new analysis will come to light, but we also have to understand that the global economic conditions confronting japan today, all of us, in fact, including the ener