the director, then-director of cia, george tenet, was an active partner with the poe sad and the -- mossad and the palestinian intelligent services in promoting peace if the middle east. but it's hard to quarrel with the results. 998 is the only year where not one israeli was killed by a terrorist incident. even though there was a prime minister too early election where the leadership of the country changed hands. so we're living in a world where it's easy to blur the lines. but i think it's important to recognize that what they did in bosnia was of lasting and enduring benefit. and the cooperative mechanism that was established to share information and to do it in a responsive, straightforward way is a good role model that ought to be followed in the future. it's not one of those lessons, to quote one of the things in the book, that ought to have to be relearned. i like former secretary of state jim baker very much, but when he said in response to the trouble in bosnia we don't have a dog in that fight, i think he was wrong. we did have a dog in the bosnian fight, and we still do. what wa