that bans the use of weapons such as this sort. that s a fogood argument, iny view, but it doesn t have a follow-on. say we go ahead and launch cruise missiles, make precision strikes, even take out air defense assets, maybe do it over a series of days with multicarrier battle group operations and so forth. let s say we do that and assad, if he s smart, says, so what? what do we do next? how to we carry on. those are some of the questions that have haunted us since iraq. of course, colonel wilkerson. thanks so much for your time. thanks for having me. we now are joined by congresswoman barbara lee. democrat from california. congresswoman, i want to read to you an article from the new york times that was just posted. president obama is prepared to move ahead with a limited military strike on syria, even with the rejection of such action by britain s parliament and increasingly rest of congress and lacking anden endorsement from the united