the president is briefed, that means the u.s. military is in fact ready to go awaiting his orders. the u.s. military doesn t do these things from a cold start. they will be ready to go but they are waiting to see the decision that mr. trump wants to make. anderson. barbara, in terms of options, there s a potential missile strike and using aircraft, you risk pilots, that s the advantage i assume of something like tomahawk missiles. that s right. let s take a quick look at the map. exactly right. in the mediterranean there are two u.s. navy warships atop the cruise missile unmanned. they fly low and fairly fast. they can invade syrian air defen defenses. that might be one of the key weapons that would be used, these tomahawk cruise missiles. the other might be the b2