they're uniform and global. and right now they're not. so they're easily going to be kind of pushed aside by the russians. >> rather than saying that we are going to send weapons, never mind, you know, anything beyond weapons the president came out today, or yesterday and explicitly said we're not going to get into a military excursion in ukraine, we'll mobilize the diplomat sources. did he say too much in that message? >> well, i think he just said absolutely the wrong message. diplomacy 101 is to have a credible threat when you have a sort of negotiation. first of all we need diplomacy with muscle, but we also have to have a very real credible threat of u.s. military action. you know, the president has bought this idea and pushed forward the idea with the american people that international crises either mean that we have a war attitude or an ignore attitude. and i don't subscribe to that. i think there is a lot we can do