between the executive and the legislative branches, to come to grips, what are we going to be in the 21st century, what is america's role. as a military man, that impacts directly our military. we've just come out of two wars. you know, we've been tasked to rebuild societies that are still in the 9th or 18th century in our image. we're suffering through sequestering. we're getting new missions, pivoting in the pacific and everything else. our military wants to know, what do you want us to be, and will you give us the capability to be that? >> chris, you think launching military operations against syria would be reckless and counterproductive for the united states. why? >> because i think the military mission has not been very well articulated, and the leading advocates for intervention, the hawks, if you will, are very explicit on this point. they do not want the mission to be limited. they understand the american people are overwhelmingly opposed to a war, especially a war that may spiral like the wars in iraq and afghanistan did.