, it is often to their clinics, their hospitals, that we are taken because it's too far to go to ramstein in germany or across the atlantic to the united states, where we could possibly die, probably die on route, and so we're tended to by our friends right in the region. during the iran iraq war when we were trying to put our flag on tankers going to kuwait, one of them was hit. the uss stark, and americans were killed and thrown into the sea. it was bahrain that went out and rescued them. it was bahrain that brought them into bahrain's hospital. it was bahrain's ruler that went -- that went to visit them in their beds, their sick rooms. many people do not know that. with regard to the regime in iran that put a death sentence out for the author of satanic verses there. not long after that, there was a meeting of the organization of the islamic conference in riyadh. iran wanted a resolution supportive of what it did. every single member country voted against what iran had done. i thought wow, because we'd been looking at the whole region through the lens of a small country in the eastern