what are your message to moms and dads who have kids in our military? >> well, the president took action not only against assad and his use of chemical weapons against his own people, but he also -- we have also taken action to protect our forces that are there. as colonel hunt alluded to, we have nearly a thousand troops in syria. we have 5,000 or so plus in iraq and also elsewhere in the region. we took steps to protect our men and women serving over there in certainly within arm's reach of assad and his use and ability to deliver chemical weapons by destroying that airfield. but there is a mess seaj not only to assad, there is a message to putin as i stated. there is also a message to our friends in the region, particularly jordan and egypt and so forth. that we're there to make sure that should, you know, u.s. national security objectives be threatened, that we will act. we will act decisively. we will act with precision. we will act also with discipline. i may also add, again, as the