is a lack of connection between what is happening in real-time and what your papers in washington tellu. you. it's unnerving and it happens quite a lot.at what i would like each of you to do along that line is that so many hands have been reaching into syria. so many different moving parts it's mesmerizing. what would you each say, we don't want to go down the entire list we would be here all day. what are the one or two that you feel are most damaged have been most damaging for the country? >> i think chris analysis is right on, i think the one thing i would add to put into context is that at this moment of u.s. disengagement in the middle east, you had ostensibly the end of the iraq war. we cannot understand the u.s. is international political positions without understanding our domestic political positions and the iraq war was going to end was very important for the november 2012 election. only the back a sensibly all u.s. troops had to be pulled out ofof iraq because we could not t an agreement with the iraqi government or ensure that our troops have the protections they need to sta