the united states made a mistake by not including chlorine gas in the initial prescribed chemical weapons in 2013, when obama made his deal with the russians. then, they were added later. but america took no action when they were used. and this is, in a sense, plugging up a hole. i believe assad doesn't want to lose his important research facilities. and he will stop using it. as we know, about 1,900 people have been killed with chemical weapons. it's a narrow bandwidth in the larger -- this is a teeny bit and it's not going to give much satisfaction to the syrian opposition or the countries that want to see assad removed. it does n mea tt the united states, france, britain are at war with assad. >> that phrase, missioned