chemical weapons under international control we have established and met that purpose. now, as you say, there are others who had other motives for the use of american military force, which was to try to get involved in determining the outcome of a syrian civil war. that goal is not one that a lot of us have because we believe it would drag the united states further militarily. we all know a big part of the rebels are al qaeda extremists. you have to worry that if you don't have a plan, that if assad goes and he's replaced by al qaeda extremists, number one, those chemical weapons would fall into even less controlling hands. and number two, you would not have resolved the situation in syria in a way that's in our interests. so that's why the president's narrow focus was justified. that's why jerry conley wanted to make sure we had a resolution that really made it clear that was the only purpose. we don't want to open up