was a nice quote from samuel johnson there. let s go to the prospects deal. i want to be positive tonight and hopeful because there seems to be one way through moscow. let me ask you this, chuck, as a reporter. do you think the russians may be serious? because there s all kinds of historic reasons they would be serious. they want the regime of assad to survive. they don t want more islamist terrorists taking over in that region. they want to hold onto their proxy and ports. they don t want more crazy people islamist zealots heading into the former soviet union. you just laid it out. there is a rational argument as to why would trussians be serios here? why would they convince syrians to do this? simple. they ve come to the conclusion that syria could do this without chemical weapons. and if they don t, they could degrade the military to a point where they won t survive. it seems to me it s obvious what