why is that significant? just several days ago the secretary of state said it is up to the syrian people to determine the feaith and future of assad. so are they considering something different here in the president is very clear that he is not going to tip his hand about the potential strategic options, but the pentagon is preparing a series of responses from the president. no word yet if they requested those options that could be available to him, but this is clearly a pressing national security problem as he prepares to hold that all important summit with the leader of china when he is expected to press on another crisis. north korea, the fact they had a number of recent provocations, president trump expected to try to turn up the heat on china to put the psh on nor pressure o