versus the iranian empire? not a fair match. dana: you haven t mentioned russia yet. how does that play into it? again, russia is a very interesting case. i mean, first of all, russia would like nothing more than to see a strategic set back for the united states in syria and in the middle east. and they are doing everything possible to make that happen. what struck me about tillerson s speech yesterday was that he was saying russia, we expect russia to support the geneva process and to help bring about a political settlement in syria that will see assad leave power. what? why in the world does tillerson or the united states think russia s gonna do that? assad s their guy. dana: right. why should russia get rid of him? dana: what about turkey then and the issue of the kurds? the president of turkey said he will kill american soldiers if they get in the way of turkish troops going after kurdish guerrilla, armed kur