affairs about the similar tarties between trump and president biden s middle east policy. i have written about the same thing. and i want to talk about afghanistan, if you consider that the greater middle east, not going into the iran deal, do you think there is kind of a similarity and strategy because what i wonder about is trump was doing this out of conviction. is biden doing this more out of political necessity? he feels like if he tries to go back into the iran deal, it will trigger a firestorm on the right. if he tries to fire a trigger policy on cuba, will it anger senator mendez, who he needs on these domestic priorities. is that a comparison that s fair to make? i think as all inconsistent. the president is focused domestically. he s obviously thinking about