again in another middle eastern country. speaking of that, nikki haley a moment ago was speaking at the u.n. and she issued a stern warning to both syria and to russia to stop this, and for russia to make sure that syria stops this, and if they do not that we will act again. she s basically not taking anything off the table. if that is the case, what is on the table for us? well, you know, she s pretty impressive. i had some dealings with her as governor. i was very impressed by her statement. it sounds as if the trump administration is starting to get a consistent message. there isn t a lot we can do in syria. it would be madness to intervene on the ground, to include creating internal safe havens with ground combat forces. i think what we could do, the next step up would be to tell u.s. naval air and u.s. air force, destroy the sir kwan ayy
concerned, you know, 500,000 murdered. lots of children and women and innocent people. spr artillery, tanks, ak-47s. jack jacobs and i have seen a lot of people killed in various ways. none of them are attractive. so now 100 killed by chemicals and we re going to do military action. against who, for what reason? that s a concern. let me follow-up on that then. so, again, we re getting signals here that the president is going to get a range of options. we don t know if he ll go for any of them, yet alone which one he might go for, but that idea there that john mccain is putting out, you said the u.s. military would have the capability to destroy syria s air force. colonel jack jacobs was talking earlier about the risk of russians getting caught up sort of as collateral damage in that. also just a question in terms of assad, if his air force is destroyed, can he govern the country still or does his rule, then, come into question? well, i don t think the russian air force are going to
ways of going. so, i hope they re cautious about what they decide to do. and if they use military power, give the u.s. air force and navy 15 days and tell them to take out the syrian air force. that would be influential on the situation. if we did that, if we took out if we did what you suggest, there is a high risk, at least i think, so maybe i m wrong, is that we would also take out some russian military because they are right there fighting side by side by assad. which i think changes sort of the balance in all of this because now we ve got, you know, now we ve got a situation with russia. am i wrong? no, i think you re dead on target. but, you know, again, let me just sort of reiterate. russia is a second or third-tier military power. they can confront the u.s. air force an u.s naval air. they re not going too it. but on the other hand, there will be a consequence of any u.s. unilateral use of military power. the iranian revolutionary guards