there is no doubt for the king that he knows he has a lot more military muscle to back up his own security forces if the problems get that big, if he needs it, if that s the direction they go in, john. nic robertson, live for us in a very fragile manama, bahrain. let s discuss this with our national security council, fran townsend. number one, bahrain, has a vital usair u.s. area. i don t know if we have ever had a president go to bahrain but this one is important, yet the administration is furious at the crackdown. you can t underscore what a press miss this is. the significance of the gcc statement has to be sort of underscored. here, they view themselves as