so bashar al assad cannot continue to use helicopter gun ships against civilians and so his refugees he's creating aren't destabilizing our allies. >> one way to stop the syrian air force from flying is to bomb the syrian air bases with cruise missiles. you don't need to go deep into syria to do that. if you can neutralize the air advantage the syrian government has over the rebels, i think you could turn the tide of battle pretty quickly. >> i think we can take affirmative action, cruise missiles, we have f-22s and b-2s that can take out the antiaircraft missiles that they have and they are very sophisticated. >> one thing i learned about some of our military, some of our military leaders, if they don't want to do something, they can invent lots of ways not to do it. the fact is we're capable of taking out their air on the ground with cruise missiles, cratering their runways, where all of these supplies, by the way, from iran, and russia, are coming in by air.