building options, but let s rewind a couple of days ago when president trump launches the first of the tweets about we re going to get out of syria. literally at the same moment general joe botel, four-star general army, incredibly capable special forces officer in charge of this entire region militarily at the same moment his commander in chief is tweeting, we re pulling out of syria, general botel is saying at a different forum, we re going to say. we have a good plan. we re working through this. we have a job to do with isis so this kind of disconnect is incredibly difficult for the military to deal with. and, i think about the time that tweet came out there was a sound of a distant explosion. that was general mattis s head exploding in the pentagon because he s the one that has to put those pieces back together again. so, elise, today the military is building the option sets, which will run from fairly benign