squl we re getting to a core political question. is the republican base reverting back to party of bush, which was about defense or this rand paulism, of backing up, getting back to a pre-1950 republican foreign policy, is that going to be durable. i don t think we know. i think what you re seeing is the republican base is fairly divided about this stuff and without that true north or true south these guys don t know where to go. if you want to talk about national security talk to john mccain. right. about the potential impact on u.s. forces over seas, who might be captured by people who don t like us. and if in fact we re torturers is it more likely that our people are tortured over seas. i would say there is probably a split among the democrat party. the president doesn t feel he has the running room to say this