Personnel and averting humanitarian disasters. Our strikes outside those guidelines but consistent with the president s view that it is time to pursue a more offensive phase in the campaign against isil. The hill made clear on yesterday that the pentagon is way for a goahead from the president. I have not heard anyone say that you or ambassador rice that is something that i interpreted in the testimony on capitol hill. I think the most accurate way to describe the current circumstance is that after extensive planning by the president S National Security team and his senior military inpersonncluding a briefing you received earlier this week, the president and hiS National Security team are prepared to conduct airstrikes in syria that are consistent with the brought into airstrike campaign that the president laid out last week. Question. Ery simple besides anything else this is a complex issue. I understand. It is a very simple question here. We are not asking about time. We are not sayi