well there is a lot of diplomatic frequent flyer mileage being wrakd up. but the various countries are still far apart. iran and russia still support basher al assad. they are not pushing to have him removed any time soon while turkey and saudi arabia and the syrian rebels on the ground insist that basher al assad be removed. and the changes, there are four secret police agencies in syria that have killed thousands of people as well. so there are a lot of work to be done to couple with some national unity government and there is certainly no deal in the offing next we re or next month. you said you left your post because you could quote, no longer defend the obama syria policy. what you do make of the policy there, particularly the arming