vulnerability in our strategic and tactical plans. i mean we don't really have one when it comes to syria. maybe we shouldn't. i mean it may be the worse thing to do is to intervene after six years of civil war. it's hard to imagine why he's doing this now, except to get a pr victory. >> frank, over the weekend president trump there was a quote that stuck out to me that he will reject the path of inflexible ideology. inflexible ideology seems to be steve bannon's brands. >> right. >> you wrote a whole column really on what caused president trump to launch these attacks and we're saying on a short level, well, it was the images, his lawyer ivanka. does all of this fit into some new narrative he wants? >> with trump you never know what is causing a given action because he is ideologically all over the place. he's impulsive and proud of that. i can't help but notice but before this missile strike we were all talking ad nauseam