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saudi arabia. israel turkey. many of them lock them up for the political speech. lock-up dissidents. it s a slippery slope even if it is a positive slippery slope i agree. and i guess to me if you re talking about egypt a country that has more political prisoners probably ten times more political prisoners than any other nation that we deal with it is a clear cut case and i agree that there will be other countries in which it is a deeper question as to how far they have slid away from democrats and how critical they are to u.s. security. but when we look at countries like egypt and saudi arabia. countries that have engaged in these massive, very public human rights abuses. i just think that when we stay in business with them at the level that we have been in it does particular damage to our credibility around the world. and so i do think it makes sense to elevate a handful of these cases. agreed.