and two different paths here. >> i think newt highlighted the great danger which is where you have a limited strike of this nature, you almost yield the initiative to the other side. if they survive that strike, and if assad is able to continue to do what he's doing, maybe he doesn't use chemical weapons again, you haven't really won because you have inched your way in to the civil war. you have taken a side and you are not winning. the united states can't put its credibility on the line and then say that's it. we did our three days of strikes. after this what happens doesn't matter. especially not when the secretary of state has compared this to munich. the president has compared it to the holocaust in sweden. in order to sell this limited strike, they are using language that has so inflated the stakes and dramatized it you have to wonder up won't the action have to catch up with this.