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Of these sites not movable. and that's the source of the -- that's what really sets them back. to go back to an earlier question. that's really the difference between striking an air field and essentially a delivery platform and research development and generation part of the facility. this is far more damaging to syria. >> michael? >> general mckenzie, were the three targets that were struck, does this represent the totality of syria's known cw infrastructure or were there cw structures that were -- that you didn't hit because of collateral damage concerns? second, is chlorine the new red lin...

That's what really sets them back. to go back to an earlier question, that's the difference between striking an airfield and delivery platform and a research development part of the facility. this is far more damaging to syria. >> michael? >> general mckenzie, were the three targets that were struck, does this represent the totality of syria's known cw infrastructure or were there cw structures you didn't hit because of collateral damage concerns? second, is chlorine the new red line because the administration monitored the use of chlorine for many months and didn't take action and seems to on...

Gentlemen having you in the studio is a big benefit to us. let's talk and what happened. what was used? what do we know about what happened? >> the two destroyers, these were destroyers were just off the coast, they launched 59 cruise missiles, t-lams, tomahawks and land at the airfield. that's where the chemical attack arg originated from. there were rotary aircraft routinely stationed there. this was kind of in the middle of nowhere so we didn't have the collateral damage concerns as a result of this strike. so there's benefit in terms of proportionality and we can talk about that and whethe...

Attacking what tactical air krafl forces inside of a constituent, nothing prevents us in the rules of engagement from doing that. we're doing that because we are not sure -- we're fairly confident we couldn't achieve -- meet or collateral damage concerns. >> but the coalition has been doing strikes -- air strikes on ground forces, moammar gadhafi's ground forces outside of the cities. would that continue under nato? that's something we'll have to keep a close eye on. >> turkey is a member of nato, and they don't necessarily appreciate some of those assaults on the ground troops on gadhafi. sta...