mr. connelly is recognized. >> thank you. picking up the last point, perhaps making a devils advocate argument about it, though. the idea of why would we negotiate with or be engaged with a criminal regime, some might observe that in the very early weeks of the new then push administration, president bush overruled his own incoming secretary of state powell who said we're going to continue the policies of the clinton administration and he said no, it's not. would that be a fair statement?