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>> you're right, the u.s. is the super power, not the other way around. that framing is important for this meeting this week. >> i think the u.s. now has a stronger hand with russia because under obama there was never a real sense that obama would ever do something against the assad gime. theruld be a lot of rhetoric, assad must go but no policy follow through. and now for the first i'm in several years there's a sense that maybe the u.s. will do something in syria. maybe they will target assad again. now the russians are pretty much on notice where i think they had the sense under obama they ...

Nothing at all, this was actually quite a small strike. >> cal, let me ask you about the dynamics inside syria. the colonel was talking about this being punishment for the chemal aack for the assad gime, hoping to deter him maybe from committing another type of crime against the syrian people. but specifically in terms of the dynamic of the war inside, is this likely to change any dynamic on the battlefield? >> probably not. bashar al assad now controls over 80% of the country. we've heard recently from the u.s. an indication that they're perhaps willing to give up on the policy of removing ba...