a guaranteed, sponsored transition which ensures there won t be a slaughter, whiches the only way to guarantee there s not going to be vengeance violence at this stage. i think when we confront them directly with that rather than these jabs back and forth over the news wires, that s where the real stuff in diplomacy really takes root. agree with you about mr. assad. this is an international war criminal. we re seeing more and more defections out of the syrian warmed forces. very difficult to get confirmation about whether people were poisoned two weeks ago. we re going to need some time for this to unfold and see what kind of action the syrians closest to the top will take. last question, professor. you just used the perfect word to describe globally what s going on.