i wasn't so sure at the time. but it turned out the president had thought it pretty well through. i don't think the resolution can accomplish that. >> let me read you a portion of a letter general martin dempsey is, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff wrote to the senate armed services committee about military strikes. he says this -- depending on duration, the costs would be in the billions. and he writes later, there is a risk that the regime could withstand limited strikes by disbursing its assets. isn't there now a significant risk of mission creep whether this strike works or not? >> there definitely is a risk of whether you call it mission creep or just the unpredictable. i think general dempsey is right to underscore that we don't really know what a first limited attack will do. i would go further. i would say it's probably not going to do that much militarily as much as anything, it's
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