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Well, if I think about the underlying root cause of terrorism as a behavior, it's important to think about terrorism as a behavior. People aren't born terrorists, I mean they're not. People are not born terrorists. Maybe a few are, right. I mean there have always been a few people, there always will be a few people who you know, are just right crazy, demented, and they've been around... they're always been around, they'll always be around. That's why we have you know, law enforcement agencies and the FBI and so forth. I mean enormously important. But what we're seeing in the world now is not exclusively that, right. I mean in order for this to happen it requires large numbers of people to either explicitly or at least tacitly support it and the only way that can happen is if people don't really sense that there is much of an option. That I think a lot of this is based on a sense of alienation, humiliation, lack of opportunity, just a sense that you know, that they're being bypassed, exploited, humiliated that there are others that are benefiting and they're not and they're kind of seeing things pass them by. So to me this idea of the base of the pyramid is a potential antidote, if it's done well. If you can bring the power of enterprise to open up options, to create other avenues so that people could actually see alternative pathways and it's not just about profit, right. It's about creating livelihoods, it's about creating options for people's lives, it's about creating ways for families to stay together so that people don't have to migrate to find wage employment. Where do a lot of the young men end up being attracted to nihilist causes, it's when they leave home to find wage employment. They're ideal targets for recruiting. And since there is no compelling alternative vision then nihilist causes become attractive, potentially attractive especially if it seems like there's a larger cause or if there's a grand cause and if it holds the potential for the security of the family which it often does and our challenge is to figure out an alternative vision, a positive vision that opens up alternatives that wouldn't have otherwise existed.