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why does he do it? why does assad knowing the whole world is watching, knowing t? the russians have guaranteed he want do it. chemical weapons are wrong and everybody is saying they re evil. they were outlawed basically after world war i. why does he do it? it s ininevitable that a newment new president is going to be tested. after the information we heard last week about assad s future is up to the syrian people and we don t have a dog in this fight is this one of those things where we sent the wrong message, where we said we aren t going to defend korea. then north koreans attack south korea. we were going to defend kuwait. the iraqis attack kuwait. the problem was three or four days ago when tillerson we don t care. i think that was a problem, and i think this strike does not actually change the situation on the ground. it doesn t change assad s calculus. he s still winning on the battlefield, and he can hold out. you know what i was thinking the other day. ....
Execute. hillary, hang on. i want to get heather in here. i raised it a minute ago. given how difficult and complex this situation is and given how limited the operation would be if the operation takes place, what happens if it really doesn t change the equation at all, if it doesn t change assad s thinking? what happens then? we ve been pretty explicit that it s not going to change the situation in the near term. in another way, it already has changed the equation. for example, assad isn t using the phone to talk to his generals anymore. the whole way they were conducting themselves, they now know we can hear. so the day-to-day operations have changed. the last week they ve been spending time moving prisoners around, moving equipment around, moving weapons around. assad s comfort level with how he can behave in his own country will never be the same. at one level, we have already changed things on the ground. second, and i think the american people need to know this and it needs t ....