country at this point in time. michael is saying, which is do we triage the situation and do we actually, you know, drop our insistence the regime change happen and start working with him. i don t know if we re there yet. john kerry sort of hinted at something like that and it was quickly backtracked last week. assad seems to say he s not going anywhere. i reported in a story last week there s link willage that officials in this administration are concerned if we ramp up such port for the syrian rebels fighting assad that iran which defends assad, might try to go after our guys in iraq. this is all tangled up. there are a bunch of reasons why we might be laying off assad a little bit including the fact we re deciding that he s not as bad as isis and al qaeda and everybody else that could be running the country. katty kay, if you top to 100 top policy leaders in washington, d.c. and say if you can turn back the clock, do you wish we hadn t said saddam must go, assad must go gadhafi