are going to have a place if you defect and also i think the business community in syria that, hey, this -- you know, you are going to be opened up to a world, this going to be a positive for you, getting them behind this. >> i want to ask you about yemen since we are in the region anyway. you just got back from there. there's some similarity insofar as, again, it is a nonviolent revolt against the regime. brutally repressed and shot down in the streets. they began to arm and became then a violent essentially -- the presidential palace was shelled. right? and -- how has it played out after that? i think at the point the presidential palace was shelled and the president came to the u.s. if i'm not mistaken for medical treatment, the story dropped off the map. some some ways it bears analogies to what's happening in syria. i'm curious to what's happening there now. >> none of these done trees are identical in the way that this sort of uprising in the arab world has taken place. yemen just had a transition of