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He clearly it's a targeted limited attack, and he wanted to send that medication ungive century to him. he could have taken down all the air fields if he desired to do that. we could have done that in the same night. that would have drove up the casualties, and what he wants to have happen here is compel a change of behavior with assad. that is what this is about. >> and when drawing up plans for a matter like this, general keane as you have so many times in the past, when making these plans, what do you use as a calculation for what response might actually come? >> well, certainly that is alw...

Assad and his regime. what i would question and i know mike kirby has comments on this. this has been supported for the last year plus by russia. we would not be in this situation, assad likely be gone had russia not supported him a little over a year ago and supported him with airport and those air fields. i'm concerned what will happen and the designed end state. the american military can hit any target you want and cause a great deal of destruction. it's what comes next particularly for the iranian and cuz force fighters throughout syria. >> i think ronald reagan send missiles to hit gadhaf...

Isis, turks against the kurds. does this embolden the rebels now that the u.s. has skin in the game? >> you've seen statements by the rebels that, yes, this is something they've been waiting for. that doesn't mean we take the next step. it does mean that perhaps one of the most hideous, worst types of arsenals that assad has probably won't be used again. that dynamic alone has changed, i think. if they are used again, the united states will have to and must strike and that means it will strike the rest of the aircraft that are there. and there's russians that are protecting those air fields wi...

Including women, for somebody who matched their mental image of a president. a big guy. she described it rightly as not deliberate discrimination against a female candidate but more or less unconscious, the bag passage we all have. that we act on our intentions. women do that not quite as much as men but women do it too. >> it is culture wide. pervasive in the culture. let me play one more comment of hers. this is about syria. you speaker viewed her shortly -- you interviewed her shortly before we learned of the air strikes. >> i really believe that we should have and still should take out his...

So in terms of military action, the president obviously will listen to his commanders. he will have a wide range of options. those options don't have to include trying to change the regime in syria immediately or establish a constitutional democracy there. they could be something along the lines of what president reagan did in 1986 in libya after gadhafi's terrorist forces bombed a nightclub american service members frequent. we truck barracks, air fields, command and control centers. there's no lack of targets in syria to teach bashar al assad we will not tolerate the use of chemical weaponne...