were trying to get him to think of the big picture. the u.s. does want to respond to the chemical weapons. doesn't want to escalate, doesn't want to get into a war with russia or iran. that was the message to the russians and iranians. the question is what's the strategy now. it doesn't really seem there is a strategy for moving forward. you know, i just saw, just before we came on, a statement by senator lindsay gram. and says, you know, i'm glad the president took these strikes. they don't go far enough. there need to be a sustained u.s. presence there. when he said that people say they don't have a strategy, he said the strategy is to pull out. and that's really concerning. i think what you're going to see now is a concerted effort by the u.s., france, the uk, to work towards a genuine political solution to the civil war. right now, you know, the u.n. has a process going, the so-called geneva process, but that's been going on for years and there's nothing. >> based on what we've seen in the last, you know, few hours, say, 12 hours or so, is there any hope that if and when there