the problem here is a missile strike, a very narrow missile strike may poke the hornet's nest but not have a strategic effect. remember after the east africa embassy bombings in 1998, president clinton did a similar sort of narrow strike into the camps in afghanistan. it didn't prevent 9/11. and my point is you must have strategic objectives. and these military interventions have got to be linked to meaning objectives, we haven't heard that from the president. this is sort of punitive for the use of chemical weapons. i agree with jeremy. we have to act. we can't let that pass. but i think most importantly we need military operations tied to strategic objectives. >> fran townsend, thanks for having you. coming up, has the bashar al assad regime hidden its most valuable military assets? what would happen after a u.s. military strike? and we have new details of bashar al assad's brother, why some say he's the most brutal of all. you're watching a special "the