threading the needle. look, this is an old issue. we faced this in the cold war. on one side, we have an army coup. on the other side, a far left government tending towards to ta talltarianism. these are chases we had to make. the choice of the better of the two evils. here, you don't want to show support for a crackdown of this. i think he said the right words in deploring the violence, calling for inclusiveness and all this. he knows it won't have any effect. this is now a showdown between the military and brotherhood, the two strongest institutions in the country over who is going to govern. there's not a middle way. we have to live with one or the other. i think he didn't want to put his thumb on the scale that would hamper the government. the alternative of the brotherhood in control would be a catastrophe for egypt for minorities in egypt, women in egypt and the united states. even though he has to say a lot about deploring what's going on,