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Able to stop them. they didn't have any casualties for the fixed-wing aircraft they had. they think they knocked back, degraded the chemical weapon capability. listen to how general mackenzie put it. >> we believe that by hitting bars in particular we attacked the heart of the syrian chemical weapons program. i'm not saying they won't be able to reconstitute it. i'm not saying it is going to continue. this has dealt them a serious blow. >> now, ari, when we talk about next steps, everyone at the pentagon stresses they always reserve the right to escalate. they've been explicit about that, espe...

Accomplished that. we haven't actually impacted either the chemical weapons, the infrastructure that supports them. well didn't target those. and, you know, as the colonel has said, 59 tom headquarters while it seems like a lot, and we double tapped, which means we hit targets twice, it's one airfield. we now know that, look, when you do this type of stuff, you telegraph, taupe the russians to make sure there are russians that are inadvertently hit, i'm sure if the russians had any personnel and equipment, they moved them out. if the russians are moving out, guess what? the syrians are moving ...

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Been told, as many as 150 or 200 are on the list. that list is changing all the time. likely to see military airports and missile sites being taken out. basically, the means of delivering those chemical weapons. now, assad has had plenty of time to adjust. we have reports for instance that he's hiding away artillery. heavy weapons. even soldiers in residential areas including schools and houses. but u.s. commanders still say they're confident that these strikes will seriously disrupt assad's chemical weapon capability. but this is only meant to weaken assad militarily. it's not meant to kill h...

Far preferable outcome to seeing them disbursed among hezbollah and al qaeda. the cruise missile attack is a great option to defeat an air force. the assad air force is prime to be taken down in one strike. past that, if we're going to do that, we should go all in on the mission of completely destroying syria's chemical weapon capability, otherwise, let's just stay out. >> andrew, you're a former special operations officer. how do you see this? what do you think the best options are, and in terms of -- they aren't even talking about ending the conflict at this point, which is not possible to d...