has to be conciliatory not threatening. when we talk about the potential for some kind of armed conflict, some kind of military conflict, people sometimes go instinctively to the notion of all-out war. there s also the possibility that looms there of some kind of american engagement, military engagement with the iranian blacked militias, iranian bac d backed. what do you think that is? the chances of the iranians striking at us through a proxy are significant. that was the reason to deploy the lincoln carrier battle group to deploy more b-52s to try to deter that option. but i would be concerned that if shooting starts the upward pressures on escalation will be enormous. and if the u.s. air force and naval air have to go after the iranians, it s going to be a bloody issue. there s no question in my mind about that. we also had this report, too, that iran is increasing by