he said the combined american and british response to these american atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power. i ll ask you the same question i asked no, no, he didn t say the strikes. he did not say the strikes. he said the response, that response he was talking about. he put it back in their court. if they do it again then there s possibly more military action. but i think everybody s getting a bit confused about the word sustained used by the president and the word one shot used by the pentagon. but both parties put the onus back on the syrian regime. the idea of having a strategy is really important. and general mattis talked about the geneva process of negotiations, trying to get to some kind of political solution, which the syrians have simply refused to engage with.
were trying to get him to think of the big picture. the u.s. does want to respond to the chemical weapons. doesn t want to escalate, doesn t want to get into a war with russia or iran. that was the message to the russians and iranians. the question is what s the strategy now. it doesn t really seem there is a strategy for moving forward. you know, i just saw, just before we came on, a statement by senator lindsay gram. and says, you know, i m glad the president took these strikes. they don t go far enough. there need to be a sustained u.s. presence there. when he said that people say they don t have a strategy, he said the strategy is to pull out. and that s really concerning. i think what you re going to see now is a concerted effort by the u.s., france, the uk, to work towards a genuine political solution to the civil war. right now, you know, the u.n. has a process going, the so-called geneva process, but that s been going on for years and there s nothing. based on what we ve seen
doors. you can have regime change happen diplomatically. the geneva process is already established once there s an agreement, there should be elections 18 months after that agreement. there no specific talk about what should happen with assad. my opinion he has to go. he s killed as the previous commentator said more than half a million of his own countrymen. a lot of those brutally. i think you can see a change in the political dynamic there in syria with a process that s supported by the u.n. i asked the question congressman because lieutenant general mckinzey is the director. he said if the u.s. goal in syria was to destroy isis. he repeatedly said the u.s. goal in syria was not regime change.
attack on the skripals, the russian father and daughter here in england. there is a coordinated now feeling that we cannot, they cannot let this proceed any further, and this lesson has to be late down now to once again establish the baseline, the foundation, of this red line. at the same time, they have said this is not about regime change. this is not about getting involved in the other parts of the war. and the french president and indeed general mattis and president trump basically threw the bag back into syria s the ball back into syria s court and russia and iran s, say figure there are other uses of chemical weapons from now on, they will get a response. the ball is back in their court. prime minister theresa may spoke and said there must be a wider diplomatic effort. is there even space for that? reporter: this is the thing that s bedeviled the international community since the war began. the united states has a process called the geneva process. that s been sort of limpi
genuine desire to start a real process to end this civil war and to that supporting the u.n. envoy, there is a lot of talk of the so-called geneva process but it has for years have not gone anywhere. how do you end this? even if these strikes end and chemical weapons, we don t think they will. the syrians have plenty of ways to attack their sif ycivilians. ambassador nikki haley is speaking right now. this is our fifth council meeting in the past week to address the situation in syria. a week has gone by in which we have talked. we have talked about the victims in duma. we talked about the assad regime and its patrons and russia and iran. we spent a week talking about the unique horror of chemical weapons. if time for talk ended last