house, after a few months he came to the conclusion it was important to stay in syria, it wasn't costing us a lot, it was keeping pressure, it was giving us the opportunity to try to forge some kind of political settlement, and then suddenly with no explanation, with no telegraphing, as you say, all the allies are shocked, european allies are shocked, nobody seems to understand what's going on. one more piece of this which is interesting, it's a little complicated, but our closest allies in the fight against the assad regime are the kurds in syria. the turkish government doesn't like those guys. we just concluded a big armed sales to turkey. is it possible that part of what erdogan asked for in return, i'll buy these arms from you, but in return you have to get out of syria. it's possible. nobody knows. partly i think i'm trying to find a reason. it's because it's been so impulsive, it's been so unpredictable and it doesn't