if that you could you could make a strong argument that if that had signed, sihanouk would still be the head of that government. there would not have been an insurgency insurgency because sihanouk made a deal with the communists not support the khmer rouge. so it's still i still wake up in the middle of the night saying, why did we keep fighting? because one of the big collateral damage is cambodia and the khmer rouge. and that's a wound that hasn't healed. right? and i don't what it will take. but but just to be cognizant that those wars have consequence and you have to be completely aware of right. and that's a little i mean, if i could abuse the authority of the chair just to offer an answer to my own question, to me, it comes down not just to national will or the money in congress, but leadership. donald rumsfeld famously was speaking to troops about to cross the berm into iraq who were complaining they didn't have armored vehicles and they were, you know, scavenging steel to nailed to the side of their humvees. they called it hillbilly. and rumsfeld said, you go to war with the arm

sihanouk was overthrown by long haul in cambodia. so i merely snuck into cambodia. you see him right. and for three months covered the cambodia war which was really a wake up for me because was such an incredibly dangerous situation. the khmer rouge ruthless, you got caught by the khmer rouge. you weren't coming back. and so and the only way to cover the war was to drive down some road and figure out where something was going on or find some unit action that was happening. there was no advisors. there was nobody telling you, well, go here, we're going to have this going to do this battle. we're going to do that. and so you go down that road, sometimes you'd run into a roadblock that wasn't friendly. and if you were quick, you got out of there. was there any direct oversight or control of of what you were able to see and do as a photographer and your bosses care? i mean, did they. there was no censorship. you were free to do what you wanted to do or what you were dumb enough to do or smart enough to do. and so you did. and hard. and that was that's why that was so we

sihanouk was overthrown by long haul in cambodia. so i merely snuck into cambodia. you see him right. and for three months covered the cambodia war which was really a wake up for me because was such an incredibly dangerous situation. the khmer rouge ruthless, you got caught by the khmer rouge. you weren't coming back. and so and the only way to cover the war was to drive down some road and figure out where something was going on or find some unit action that was happening. there was no advisors. there was nobody telling you, well, go here, we're going to have this going to do this battle. we're going to do that. and so you go down that road, sometimes you'd run into a roadblock that wasn't friendly. and if you were quick, you got out of there. was there any direct oversight or control of of what you were able to see and do as a photographer and your bosses care? i mean, did they. there was no censorship. you were free to do what you wanted to do or what you were dumb enough to do or smart enough to do. and so you did. and hard. and that was that's why that was so we