namely in the sort of met tas ta sized is syrian crisis. to be sure, malaki could do better. i don't deny that for a minute but i think right now, to kind of blame the shia for this kind of level of sunni violence is to some extent really to blame the victim. so i think alla can i -- malaki going to have to see what he can do to meet this challenge militarily. he's going to have a challenge keeping shia groups from reforming into militia from keeping a more radicalized shia population. it's going to be tough. >> chris, i've got to ask you this. it certainly seems this has escalated since american troops pulled out at the end of 2011. president bush went in there saying this was going to be some place of peace in the middle east, that this was going to be some sort of model. do you see where the u.s. got involved at all? is there any success here or is this just really ultimately a