on what we know, of course we don t know what has not been released, but does it appear to you like something the military planning process created worked and the president effectively approved or is there any way to know whether he made any changes to it because there s been some analysis this is basically how the process should work. i think it was very well thought out operation. you know, fortunately, we had two crucial nato allies with us. what was missing is no regional arab partners, sunni, muslim, co-religionists, jordan, saudi arabia. ift was a well executed operation. the question remains, though, did it deter assad from further use of chemicals? did he con vinls the north koreans, iranians and others who have continuing chemical warfare capability that the next target