talk about turkey as a great ally and millions of refugees coming in. talk about what chemical weapons on the israeli border means for a larger peace strategy. he has to talk peace, and instead it s a lot of doom and gloom and woe is me. and he s losing votes in the congress daily right now. so he has a chance to come home and recalibrate. if he doesn t it seems like this is going to be a difficult sell. richard, i know you were no fan of that press conference the president just had. and i will go as a sort of comparison tool back to the speech he gave at the national defense university, where there he was laying out sort of controversial programs including our drone program and was very up front about the morality and the sort of lack of morality that some of these drone strikes possess but was unapologetic. and i think that is such a study in contrasts compared to where he is now over the syria question. i will say in his defense i thought bloomberg s clive cook had an interesting