mistake. it's not the usual. >> the republicans in congress and, frankly, the commentator set that you see in the news are not representative of republican voter opinion or necessarily of american opinions regarding this. look, you know, this is a difficult situation. you're caught between a nato ally and turkey, a treaty ally, and a military ally in the kurds who are, frankly, a stateless people who are occupying, you know, other areas of land within dispute. you're caught between a lot of different moving parts, and yet the opinion is all generally going in one direction. and i find that to be really troubling in this day and age, that we haven't taken a step back from the last two decades of activity in the middle east which, clearly, the american people have soured on, and maybe injected some additional opinions into the mix, opinions that would be more representative of what we see from the american people and less just the conventional approach that washington republicans have had for years. howard: i think that's a fair point, ray. and while the media say is cease