what are your message to moms and dads who have kids in our military? well, the president took action not only against assad and his use of chemical weapons against his own people, but he also we have also taken action to protect our forces that are there. as colonel hunt alluded to, we have nearly a thousand troops in syria. we have 5,000 or so plus in iraq and also elsewhere in the region. we took steps to protect our men and women serving over there in certainly within arm s reach of assad and his use and ability to deliver chemical weapons by destroying that airfield. but there is a mess seaj not only to assad, there is a message to putin as i stated. there is also a message to our friends in the region, particularly jordan and egypt and so forth. that we re there to make sure that should, you know, u.s. national security objectives be threatened, that we will act. we will act decisively. we will act with precision. we will act also with discipline. i may also add, again, as th
contributor judy miller. she s a per pulitzer prize winner. judy, let s start with one question. should this have been done five years ago? hillary clinton as secretary state which he of poorly pressed obama to bomb the runways from assad was barrel bombing his own people. she was on the air earlier yesterday saying that we should just do this, bomb the airfield to do exactly what president trump did. ps, we could have it. we should have. but the problems facing president obama when he decided to use diplomacy to try and remove peaceably, most of the chemical weapons out of syria was that he understood in his military people warned him that if they were anything other than a proportional strike on a military base and runways that a strike on the chemical facilities themselves what a
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flagrant flagrant violation of international law. i think right now drawing broader conclusions is risky because as you point out, we don t know how the russians will act, we don t know how the iranians will act appear to speak we have it now just breaking. let me read to you that the russians say it s an aggression against the sovereign nation member of the u.n. and it says a violation of international law. does that sound like someone is going to back out to you. what diplomatic lay does that mean was i going to do. they re going to be security council meeting by bolivia that will likely done this. how searcy from the kremlin who are criticizing this. the kremlin to his conflicted. on one hand, it wants a fair base in syria, he wants to keep its influence in the middle east. it doesn t want isis on its doorstep either. it too wants to remain focused on the fight against isis.
try to make sure that they don t respond disproportionately. and i think that you are also probably going to see a second look at some other possible strike locations. this i think there are other targets on deck. you may see those, depending on how some of those initial conversation goes specifically with the russians. steve: jillian, what we are seeing with this president something we didn t see with the last president and that seems to be some flexibility. out on the campaign trail, donald trump did not sound like he was for any sort of military action in syria. now, 48 hours after he saw these gas attacks he was for taking military action. because is he flexible, does that confuse people internationally when they are thinking about doing something bad? well, i think that it s never a good thing when you have people committing to one thing and not following through when is what whand previously with the sir i can t believe and the obama