shib shibly i want to ask you about e.j.'s comments about a long standing tradition about reluctant warrior segment. >> first of all on e.j.'s last point which i think is key is how people assess the prospects because we have a lot of literature separate from polling and we have international theories about why public and why particular leet american public says i've had enough. at what point do they say we don't want any more of this and a lot of theories have suggested it's a link to their assessment whether you can win or not. you can pay a price up to a point and obviously, the assessment is there is no clear win here and iraq is one case, but even afghanistan people don't really see a particular win and that's undoubtedly influencing the move. i think that by and large i think the american mood i mean, remember, particularly after the end of the cold war, i mentioned the mogadishu case of 1990 when we had the soldiers dragged in a very ugly way. remember this is a time when we are the sole super power and we're in the mi