anticipate the reaction but just to kind of tweet out or, you know, send very confusing messaging. so now what about this potential power vacuum in syria? how significant of a concern should that be? >> i think a very significant one. the first question is, has the president does a great favor to the russians and to the iranians who are on the ground there? as you listened carefully to the president's advisers, one of the arguments they were making, whether you believe it or not, for the reason the united states needed to maintain a presence, was to keep iran and russia from basically playing the only game in deciding the succession in syria. secondly, i think to john bolton, the national security adviser and certainly to jim jeffries, hop been the adviser on syria for the president, who gave a speech on monday, they made the argument that iran's presence was a significant