side of the story. >> in 2013, i thought barack obama should've done missile strikes against assad in. >> eric: might have saved us a lot of time and money. >> i fully agree. >> eric: to donald trump to the right thing by sending those tomahawk missiles into syria? >> absolutely. he did a number of things. he began to reestablish strategic deterrence in the world, very important not just assad but it ran, the north koreans understand that america not only has power, but has a determination and the will to use it in its best interests at various times. also, president trump was enforcing international law. a lot of times it's hard to say what international law is. is not one of those cases. the use of chemical weapons by assad violates the chemical weapons convention which assad subscribed to. >> eric: let me play little devil's advocate here. is bombing schools and hospitals with conventional weapons as well.