 look like. And the truth is that foreign policy also is not measured in terms of six months. I couldn't tell you, for example, probably in 1952, what was the specific interest that the United States had in, say, South Korea. I can tell you right now what the specific interest the United States has in South Korea, but it's only because South Korea exists. And so one of the things that's very difficult about foreign policy is that an ounce of prevention sometimes