2nd, 1990, you remember well when saddam went into kuwait, helen thomas asked the president twice whether he was contemplating intervention. he said i am not contemplating intervention of any kind. three days later, as he grew more concerned about the situation, he said memorably, this will not stand, this aggression against kuwait, and it's arguably the most memorable phrase of his public life. he wasn't sure that first day exactly what the scope of the problem was. i think president obama probably has a greater degree of certainty, at least the scope of the problem on terror, and i would hope and think that the president would speak more clearly and more consistently as well, more often, i should say, about this. i think it's an amorphous threat to many americans. we have seen it become all too