table right now. martin dempsey in a letter in july to senator levin, chairman of the senate armed services committee, said very clearly, if the regime collapses and there's no viable opposition, those chemical weapons could get into the hands of al qaeda and that's really bad. so the satisfying option in the case of syria is probably a very dangerous option. but at the same time, i think obama's got a real problem right now. that is the rhetoric and the crime, the gassing of his own people, the moral obscenity and how we hear this administration, including the president describe what happened, does not meet the military action he's talking about. it is a redux of cruise missile diplomacy, the kind of thing clinton did in the 1990s without weapons inspectors. i'm saying there's a disconnect between the severity of what has just happened and the moral obscenity that just happened and what is actually being proposed militarily. >> so i think there's a couple parts to this. this is the worst chemical