have a military resolution but without a political plan it won't get sorted out. >> in my mind it is a mix of both. from the beginning i always thought that the only language assad understood was military action. his father was no different. without some credible threat of military action he would view it as a carte blanche. and he has. we haven been seeing these kind of attacks for years. at the end of the day it absolutely needs to be both. i don't think you can have only one or the other. under the obama administration i would argue there were missed opportunities for targeted military strikes that would have shown we were closely monitoring the situation and that we wouldn't allow it to escalate after a certain point. and certainly to force it into a democratic transition. now, what you are talking about obviously includes a political deal, but it needs to be a mix of military action that's significantly undermining the syrian military and some kind of plan with carrots and sticks