we have mhave none of those thi when it comes to iran. and i'm not talking about the pact that you have a regime that has messianic impulses. but even assuming rational actor, rational doesn't necessarily mean reasonable. read problem mcnamara's accounts. even with very rational actors and even with 500,000 troops and even with embassies and all these contacts, the chances of miscalculation were very high. and here we don't have any of the prerequisite infrastructure. and that to me says when there's not that communication, then the chances of miscalculations go through the roof. moreover in the middle east, we have local triggers for conflict with proxy groups that get funding from iran that we didn't have during the cold war. moreover, we didn't have a caves the soviet union saying we'll wife the country off the face of the earth. and certainly none of these things exist between tehran and jerusalem. so i think it's a more dangerous situation and i think it's important therefore that the president spoke with containment not being a viab