that memo. the legendary secretary of state henry kissinger once awarded the nobel peace prize trying to offer advice. he wrote this in an op-ed, but the spokesperson marie harf, didn't seem to be interested. >> i heard a lot of big words and big thoughts in that piece, and those are certainly -- there's a place for that. i didn't hear a lot of alternatives about what they would do differently. >> kissinger says the deal reinforces problems that are going on in the middle east. it was in yesterday's wall street journal. >> he did use words that were maybe more than one syllable there was alternatives. the titanic mistake would be to sign off. >> they had an alternative.