gore as opposed to an outgoing president clinton? i think both you and i agree al gore doesn t go to iraq. barack obama was one of the few that stood up to republicans early on and said, boy, iraq is a mistake. if he doesn t have that moment, do we have a president barack obama? given his age, we might have a barack obama in 2024. he was an outsize political talent. but the point you are making, and it s really critical, i think, if you do alternate history right, is you have to play out all the contingencies. you can t just say we ll put this person in place of this person. for instance, would john kennedy, had he lived, gotten out of vietnam? people say, look what happened in 65, there was an attack on the marines. kennedy would have had 14 months to try to figure out some way to de-escalate vietnam, which he was very much inclined to do, i believe. so your point is very