are going to have a place if you defect and also i think the business community in syria that, hey, this you know, you are going to be opened up to a world, this going to be a positive for you, getting them behind this. i want to ask you about yemen since we are in the region anyway. you just got back from there. there s some similarity insofar as, again, it is a nonviolent revolt against the regime. brutally repressed and shot down in the streets. they began to arm and became then a violent essentially the presidential palace was shelled. right? and how has it played out after that? i think at the point the presidential palace was shelled and the president came to the u.s. if i m not mistaken for medical treatment, the story dropped off the map. some some ways it bears analogies to what s happening in syria. i m curious to what s happening there now. none of these done trees are identical in the way that this sort of uprising in the arab world has taken place. yemen just had