i recommend to you and everyone else here, book called "why margaret thacher matters." what? >> sounds good. >> yeah. it is worth your reading, remarkable study of the novelist living in istanbul. she got fascinated looking back at what an enormous impact thatcher had on british economics. i think one of the fascinating differences between president reagan and president obama is president reagan had had a long period to think about foreign policy and to think about what he believed and doing the daily radio show for a long period after he was governor, he had really thought about almost every major public policy issue and developed firm opinion. i sense that president obama has a lot of sort of surface-level ideas, but he hasn't thought through the next two or three layers down. i think one of the most interesting things about the next two or three years is going to watch him come to grips with this. if you notice for example there is an article i believe in today's paper on the fact that life has gotten harder in afghanistan, not easier. pakistan is in a relatively fragile s