middle east. the answer is we have two hard liners. mike pompeo and john bolton leading a policy process that s a vacuum. they have driven us to a point of escalation for the sake of escalation. it s no small wonder that we re here in this situation right now. a small drone, in fact, flew close to the u.s. embassy in baghdad. the staff had to take cover. local security made sure the drone was not a potential attack but you can imagine in this climate that kind of thing can set off a lot of steps that we don t want to imagine. absolutely. the forces are on high alert and high guard, as they should be. we have to have a good deal of skepticism not necessarily for this drone event but from what we re hearing from this administration when it comes to the threat environment. our antennas should go up every