contributor and editor for the daily beast, conflict di. you have the nightclub owner who reportedly said that security had been increased over the past several days after american intelligence officials warned about an attack in turkey. for basically a -- for us here at home or anybody else in europe, for that matter does this mean even if you are alert and taking precautions you're still helpless if someone is going to carry out something like this? >> i think what we have to say is particularly if this was the so-called islamic state, they are under a lot of pressure and will hit any soft target they can. matt was talk about some of the earlier attacks by other groups in turkey, those were aimed at police, even though they killed civilians, or in some cases aimed at kurdish activists. this kind of attack against a nightclub, a soft target, is