the last year more and more to a point where we have a dog in this fight? well, it s important to do the strike. as you say, we ve made it more difficult on ourselves with the delay, with now the need for congressional authorization. we ve raised all sorts of questions about our reliability. we ve raised questions about our predictability and so forth. i also think we ve now made it more difficult to thread the needle as the president wants to do. all along he said he wanted to reinforce this norm against chemical weapons use. he doesn t want to get the united states enmeshed in the syrian civil war. now with the ability to prepare psychologically and physically against these attacks, it seems that the administration needs to do a pinprick or a shot across the bow or anything token doesn t underscore the norm. it defeats the purpose, which is to inflict real pain and cost on the syrian government for using chemical weapons.
this fight? well, it s important to do the strike. as you say, we ve made it more difficult on ourselves with the delay, with now the need for congressional authorization. we ve raised all sorts of questions about our reliability. we ve raised questions about our predictability and so forth. i also think we ve now made it more difficult to thread the needle as the president wants to do. all along he said he wanted to reinforce this norm against chemical weapons use. he doesn t want to get the united states enmeshed in the syrian civil war. now with the ability to prepare psychologically and physically against these attacks, it seems that the administration needs to do a pinprick or a shot across the bow or anything token doesn t underscore the norm. it defeats the purpose, which is to inflict real pain and cost on the syrian government for using chemical weapons. so to use a different metaer