will have the equipment, the training and the capability to do the mission they have to do, which right now is moving to providing assistance to the afghan forces as they take responsibility in afghanistan. we will absolutely fund that. the trade-off is that in order to did that we have to sacrifice some of our readiness back here. so what i have to monitor very carefully is that we sustain a level of reedness here that enables us to sppd to unknown contingencies that could occur in other places around the world. >> jamie: one potential, not so unknown is syria. is there evidence that chemical weapons were used? what are we prepared to do if they were? and even if they are not -- why wait? tens of thens of people have been killed? >> i would say there has been no distinct evidence that chemmal and biological issues based on the intelligence. but wehave to be aware that the