or 1400 incertainty civilians dying senselessly in an environment in which you already have tens of thousands dying. and we have the opportunity to take some action, that it's meaningful even if it doesn't solve the entire problem, may at least mitigate this particular problem. then the moral thing to do is not to stand by and do nothing. >> there's a case to be made that doing nothing is a bad response to this alleged large scale use of chemical weapons. there's also a case to be made that it is a bad response to not exhaust every possibility of getting a true international response to that kind of alleged attack. why not wait for the u.n. weapons inspectors. there's also a case to be made that even if you do wait for the u.n. weapons inspectors, whether we are alone or in some sort of