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civilians. what was a red line in 2013. all right. i want to talk now with our panel here. colonel leighton is a cnn military analyst and former member of the joint chiefs of staff. also cnn military analyst and former military intelligence officer in syria, lieutenant colonel rick francona. bob biard. former cia operative. good to see you gentlemen. you heard general mcmaster say a strong signal was sent. was this strong enough? well, i think it s a little bit too early to say, but if the goal was, and it seems to have been the goal to just give them a warning, then we ve achieved that goal. in essence what we ve done is we ve changed the way in which the united states is playing in syria and that makes a big difference already. if we wanted to do an all out attack on them, of course it wasn t sufficient to do that.