not? right now we are cautious. a good thing. serving our own self-interests means making sure the islamic state doesn t overrun some of our allies in the region. we have been helping them to keep that from happening. we haven t done anything right now that that will clearly bounce back to hurt us in ways we could have avoided, though. is it your sense on the other sichd the side of the border from saudi arabia caused changes over the last couple of eck woos what we re trying to do make sure whenever there is a new government in yemen we ll be ale to put someone in there who works for us and the rest is just i don t know, moving pieces around on the board? yeah. well yemen is basically in flames now. no we we have really in good options and i don t think there s any really reliable livers oflive ers ish livores we have the power to move. graham wood great to talk to