pressing questions going forward, right. the first thing is will the french public blame france s involvement in syria for these attacks the same way british blamed in remark bombings. in hollande goes after isis hard, will he now drop his demand that assad steps down so as to get russian and syrian and iranian backing for a sort of unrestrained french campaign. that s an interesting question. can we trust the russians? are you suggesting that we team up? i know president obama says that he will talk to anybody with regard to calming things down inside syria. and look, we know up to this point that the russians have followed a policy of going after everyone except isis. right. but hollande will be under so much pressure to respond strongly and viciously against isis in syria that even though he s been the most hard lined