but what he's proposing is what he keeps saying is a very limited military strike. something his secretary of state called unbelievably small. i think that tension where you're trying to drum up a great deal of support, a lot of americans look at it and say yes, it's a terrible thing. yes, chemical weapons are bad, assad is bad. is this in our national interests? is this something that really americans -- should americans die for this? >> no americans are going to die for that, fareed. why is it we can't get off this straw man? there are no boots on the ground. enough already with this. >> that's my point that he's trying to say it's in our core national security interests but i'm only going to do two days of strikes. >> but it will be enough. and he said critically that it will be enough. and this is what i want to ask david kay, because operation desert fox was a couple of days. i was there. saw cruise missiles going by me. hitting and it worked. >> what we're talking about here is a very limited action which