bloodshed. why? because we get into it by shooting and killing people. not just military people, necessarily, all kinds of people who has been to be living next to a mobile missile launcher or some other defensive weapon. why? because it's difficult. unless we're able to command the skies ourselves. and that means being able to carry through an effective campaign to knock out these anti-aircraft weapons before we go in. so let's make sure we aren't going to put our pilots in danger of getting shot down over damascus. we've heard before what a cake walk it was to go to war, it isn't, it wasn't in iraq. step two, here's the second old trick, put out the word that we must go to war. but before you go for that one, remember how you felt last time when you realized that absolute must reason turned out to be something very different. we may be able to change the course of that civil war in syria, but we're not likely to be able to pick the kind of winner we'd like. and i fear these words because the only sure result is the united states once again be killing thousands of islamic people on international