i m saying that, obviously, you better know. you were just there in the region being briefed, but do you understand the senators who are saying, yeah, i didn t know? well, i ll say, there has not been a lot of briefing of what s been happening in west africa. you know, we ve been focused, and i sit on the armed services committee, but a great deal of the work that we do relates to what s happening in north korea, what s happening in iraq, what s happening in afghanistan, so there s no shortage of things that we have to deal with. in fact, when i came back from nigeria and the briefing that i received, i thought at that time, my colleagues aren t really aware of what s happening here in west africa, we need to have a briefing. i talked to the chair of the subcommittee that i sit on and hopefully we re in the process of actually having a more specific briefing of what s happening in the northwestern region of africa, but it impacts what happens in niger as well as chad. back in march