wonderful, it's going to be a new america when we're done with them. you know, the nation building was a great strategy in the world war ii oor a and it worked. that strategy isn't working any more. we have been notoriously unsuccessful in attempting -- in attempting to do nation nation building. part of it is because there's a lot of reasons for it. obviously one of them is that we're operating in countries where the culture is so much different than ours, very different from the landscape in world war ii and after world war ii. so, again, i want to encourage you to take that question to the table every time, say, okay, guys, i see what you've got planned. i think it's going to work. what happens next? because that is an incredibly important decision when we decide what we're going to do. let me shift gears here for a minute. i want to talk about the iran