weapons and not to change the outcome of the civil war? >> the preference of the president is to have this a narrow authorization so that kn nobody gets confused and people aren't asking to vote for two different things. the president wants to capacity to enforce the international norm and make our word respective that meaningful to the region. >> i know your staff will be working with congress to draft a resolution. i hope very much that we're marking up a resolution in this committee. finally, if you could explain. >> afterwards we can introduce the questions for the record. we need to go to mr. smith chairman of the africa