countries very well. where you have saudi arabia wants it, turkey wants it, jordan as well, but their countries come out and make public statements saying they re against u.s. military intervention and then if the united states does intervene and things go badly, then those countries tend to come back and say it s the united states fault, upsetting the card in the middle east and intervening. it is a pattern that hasn t worked very well for u.s. interests for a very long time. lastly, chemical weapons have been used in the middle east several times. ga mall al yasser used them in yemen, saddam hussein against iran and then against the kurds and now bashar al assad using them. they have been used in the middle east by arabs against their enemies several times before. right. richard, question for you, are the turks worried about war widening, if the united states uses military force it could blow back on them directly? the turks are really divided