thank you for joining us. i ll start by an open question and feel free to speak up here if you think this, but is there anything right now, does anybody on this panel think anything could happen in the next few hours in the next day or two that would stop the united states from launching a military attack? does anybody think anything could change that at this point? yes. i mean, i could say there are several things. could very well be the president feels that for all of the reasoreason s at this particular second he does not want to launch this attack and yet he s reserving the right to. the element of surprise, whatever that may mean in the end has been lost here in so far as the syrians are concerned. there s nothing in my judgment that s going to change the equation between him now doing it today, tomorrow or two weeks from now. other than the fact that the media and the white house, frankly, has created this buzz that this attack is inevitable. the fact that the president is goin