institute tyson barker writes about american politics and by york of a weiss writer and journalist on the middle east thanks to both of you for coming in if we could start with you we've been seeing crowds celebrating on the streets of damascus and other cities in syria what are they celebrating do a bit of that this is a place where you cannot go as an independent journalist i'm not sure exactly what the sort of breakthrough celebrating the state the poet and this is because not the thought in this the adaptation of a set foot being at the who do you think the sites that have been hit have been a setback for him militarily i don't that the olympic committee that it could be but he of the fuses mean tactic in this it is human to me that they will show which is the discriminant bodman of civilian areas so in this medium it is with it by chemical weapons or by conventional weapons and tyson what kind of firepower did america bring to bear in this operation but we know. a man a said that this is