point? yeah, normally what happens is the president defines an objective and says here is what i want to happen and the pentagon decides what happens they will use and how they will do it and proves it and they do it. now what they are being told is you ll use cruise missiles and because the way the resolution is written, there is reports it may be b-2s, b-5 2s, but if it s to hit high assets, cruise missiles air launch cruise missiles won t do it. you need penetrating weapons. so show us on the maps what could you do? let s say everything works perfectly. what would you do to achieve the goals stated so far you ll stop the ability to use chemical weapons, detour anybody else from doing it and not topple the regime and hurt anybody you want to? chris, i think it s more confused than rick suggested. in an interview with george
may be b-2s, b-5 2s, but if it s to hit high assets, cruise missiles air launch cruise missiles won t do it. you need penetrating weapons. so show us on the maps what could you do? let s say everything works perfectly. what would you do to achieve the goals stated so far you ll stop the ability to use chemical weapons, detour anybody else from doing it and not topple the regime and hurt anybody you want to? chris, i think it s more confused than rick suggested. in an interview with george little, he says the military strategy as you described to detour and degrade the ability, the state department, another agency of the same government, their policy, their strategy is regime change and what nobody seems to be able to explain to any of us is how are these two things linked? nick, why don t you get in on
is written, there is reports it may be b-2s, b-5 2s, but if it s to hit high assets, cruise missiles air launch cruise missiles won t do it. you need penetrating weapons. so show us on the maps what could you do? let s say everything works perfectly. what would you do to achieve the goals stated so far you ll stop the ability to use chemical weapons, detour anybody else from doing it and not topple the regime and hurt anybody you want to? chris, i think it s more confused than rick suggested. in an interview with george little, he says the military strategy as you described to detour and degrade the ability, the state department, another agency of the same government, their policy, their strategy is regime change and what nobody seems to be able to explain to
tom, i would expect to see all of these, primarily submarines in eastern mediterranean. they are already located there. but bear in mind, we don t know the plan, but i would expect to see bombers involved. this is a b-52. i would also expect b-2s coming out of whiteman air force base, the stealth bomber, which is in missouri, comes over the atlantic, refuels in the vicinity of italy, and then will launch its munitions at targets in syria without ever having to penetrate the air space. this is a lot more complicated, involving a lot more hardweare and people than just firing from the ships. the ships have hundreds of missiles. why would you want such a complicated system. well, it s not that complicated. it s a matter of physics. you can only launch so many cruise missiles from these ships. so, you want to get more platforms. you want to launch them from the air. so, you want to maintain continuous pressure on the regime, so assad has to keep his head down, doesn t know what s goi
i think we also need to move towards imposing a no-fly zone. so bashar al assad cannot continue to use helicopter gun ships against civilians and so his refugees he s creating aren t destabilizing our allies. one way to stop the syrian air force from flying is to bomb the syrian air bases with cruise missiles. you don t need to go deep into syria to do that. if you can neutralize the air advantage the syrian government has over the rebels, i think you could turn the tide of battle pretty quickly. i think we can take affirmative action, cruise missiles, we have f-22s and b-2s that can take out the antiaircraft missiles that they have and they are very sophisticated. one thing i learned about some of our military, some of our military leaders, if they don t want to do something, they