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>> it doesnt fade. but i have parked it. tom, in life we have to go on. and put it behind us and be grateful and every once in a while something reminds me of it or i hear from an old friend who calls up and asked me why i voted wrong and they never call me and tell me i voted right. so think about it. but what i really think about is the people that i had the honor of serving with. some of the gutsiest, most patriotic, most wonderful people ive ever known in my life. theyre my dearest and best ...

Grateful and every once in a while something reminds me of it or i hear from an old friend who calls up and asked me why i voted wrong and they never call me and tell me i voted right. so think about it. but what i really think about is the people that i had the honor of serving with. some of the gutsiest, most patriotic, most wonderful people ive ever known in my life. theyre my dearest and best friends. >> and with us now is colonel jack jake cobbs, retire colonel and analyst and medal of hono...

What is the goal of the united states? will we hear that from the president tonight? is it punitive? is it humanitarian? is it because we want to be playing a long game in the middle east? we do not understand what the purpose would be behind any attacks at this point. >> all right. we now have confirmed the president will be speaking tonight at 9:00. hell be addressing the nation in a brief address. we expect it to be about five minutes. colonel jack, obviously there are many u.s. service membe...

Of al qaeda, the parent group. you have the different element going on. still have 2,000 american forces on the ground in syria. president trump only two week ago, saying that he wanted to pull american forces out. suddenly, he is learning very quickly that that is easier said than done. and soap th so thats where you stand tonight. >> tonight. either see u.s. involvement in the syrian war getting more entrenched or seeing that at least the civil war is going to continue in capacity. vivian, tha...

Picked out as the most likely targets for us to use. so not a -- more likely to be not a one-shot deal like it was in april but a couple of -- not a sustained attack but a couple of days worth of attacks. >> colonel jack, one last question for you. and if you do not want to answer this question, you absolutely do not have to and you can just say good night. but im wondering when decisions like this are made, obviously this gas attack that these strikes are a response to happened last week. the p...

Syrian air defenses would have to be part of the calculus in terms of how the attack would be structured, what the first targets would be and what the overexpectations could be for what could be hit effectively. joining us now for more on that and the rest of this news is colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst, medal of honor recipient. colonel jack, its a pleasure to have you with us. thanks for being with us tonight. let me ask you about the air defense force factor. how serious are syria...

That -- that announcement that says counterstrikes sounds less like air defenses. a counterstrike usually means a strike on the enemys positions. now, it would be extremely difficult for them to strike our ships. theyre very heavily protected. but what they could do is fly in zones where we have american troops or american allies like the kurds. thats entirely possible. but it sounds more like bluster. its very, very difficult to shoot down an incoming missile, rachel. >> colonel jack, we had an...

Target. get otherwise shot down. get jammed. so on. we use lots more weapons than we need. i think the message has been delivered clearly. >> well see if president bashar al assad hears that message going forward. colonel jack jacobs stick around. ambassador michael mcfall, thank you for joining us. still ahead, life to tehran to get the reaction from there. you are watching msnbc, u.s., british, french strikes against syria.

But the timing is clearly a coincidence given whats been emanating in the domestic front. but i think our government has had a hard time getting our allies on board. thats taken some time. i think also that theres been a great deal of discussion inside the white house and between the white house and the defense department about whether or not there ought to be retaliation and punishment and what form it should take and thats taken time to. at the end of the day im not a fanz fachb sing fan of si...

The third way to look at it, maybe trump is talking about something strategic. in fact, we are not going to rely just on the military power as we have for a long, long time. that we are going to use, diplomatic, economic in trumts as we -- instruments as well. assad has by and large won that, that, won that civil war. and the use of chemical weapons doesnt make any sense. the likelihood is he is not going to use them again in any case. >> colonel jack jacobs. stick around. i want to bring in, am...