i was part of the marine corps rapid deployment force back in the 1980s ready to deploy on a moment's notice. i deployed to saudi arabia during operation desert shield, desert storm to respond to i reaction invasion of kuwait, the invasion that we made, the case threatening the, your saudi arabian oil fields in eastern saudi arabia, therefore triggering the need to intervene. and then we sort of lost track and became not so much about securing the oil as um, saving face. we didn't get rid of saddam hussein after desert storm in for the next decade. we uh, embarked on policies of regime change using united nations sanctions to strangle saddam until we could build up a case for war for missed on a lie that got us involved in a conflict in 2003, a couple on that. the global war on terror. 911, f ganna. stan, i'll tell you what we don't know why we're in the middle. sort of wrapped in this, in this legacy we, we were there. but the target keep moving and now we're, we're stuck. we, we can't articulate any reasonable premise for having troops in syria. right? we're sustaining them. ok, presents direct. well, scott and i wondering chrome, yes. and this is