do you think the president is guilty of that? do you think that s too far? dereliction of duty is probably, i m not going to parse words, the messaging be much stronger, much more aggressive coming out of the white house now, yes. could it have been the same with the previous administration, yes? we played putin badly for not just this administration, fwu obama add min striministration, administration. we have never taken him as his word. a country with a gdp pushing above its weight to proclaim glory from the soviet union days. i disagree, in a sense, with all due respect to ambassador burns in terms of we are not taking action. the government is taking action. they understand the seriousness of it. we are not getting that messaging from the white house.