there is a new status quo in the middle east as far as iran and israel is concerned. what do you think the strike was meant to show and this new status quo is even more dangerous than it was before? >> i think it is a lot more dangerous, jose. as the general was saying, you know, iran escalated in a way on that april 1st attack and so iran felt that it needed to escalate, it could have responded with 20 or 30 missiles. instead, it escalated with 300 and said you want to play, let's play. and so then the question was, was israel going to respond in kind? or was it going to say to iran, listen, we can hit it deep inside your territory, we know where your nuclear facilities were, that wasn't the target, but this is a very strategic military area, not just that air base, but the missiles that iran uses to hit -- that iran uses to hit israel are in that vicinity.