da dangerous for us than iraq because because you have major world powers impended in eye rand and russia and we have told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike, meaning they are marshaling all of their defenses. well, my concern right now is the longer this process goes on, the riskier it gets. you know, we indicated we were going to strike. it has now taken a number of days to try to move towards some kind of potential strike. in the meantime i m sure the russian goe russians, the iranians and the syrians have taken steps to protect their targets and developed ways the respond to a u.s. attack. it has made it riskier right now. so what has to be done right now is not to back away, i mean to continue our military planning, to continue to look at what targets we might be able to hit, but to use it as leverage to try to force these countries to put pressure on assad to step away