it was an ill-chosen phrase when the president said this is a shot across the bow. we need to put a couple rounds in the wheelhouse and have the threat that we have the ability we could put some rounds at the waterline as well. now, with regard to what could happen afterwards, as i said, we're doing this to show our resolve. there are some other actors here, syria, especially iran, maybe hezbollah, that will want to show resolve too. we're going to show they can't get away with this ax sln. they're going to want to show after we act that these kinds of actions on our part, are not cost free. we should expect some kind of response from them. >> general, you talked about the big problem and the little problem in syria. so make the link between those two problems. if the administration gets its way and goes ahead in the way you've described, what's the impact on the big problem by solving to the extent it's soluble, the little problem? >> yeah. first of all, acting, it's not