of tied in today with the idea, well, we'll support you, they said on sunday, but this means you got to help was the rebels too. in other words, it's like chinese handcuffs. the president says i'll do this. next thing he is committing himself to helping the rebels more than he is. isn't he being dragged into the war by the hawks, by supporting them? >> both presidents reagan and clinton used strategic strikes. they knew that they had the ability and they used it in a timely and proportionate fashion. israel has done it several times -- syria, iraq, hezbollah, et cetera. and it's not about going to war. it's about responding. as i'm saying, this is not just about syria and assad. this is about saying we will not allow the use of weapons of mass destruction to become the new norm. and we're the only ones that can enforce that. and we should enforce that. you know, if we have the largest military in the world, which we do, greater than the sum total of every other nation, the rest of the world looks to us -- >> jim, jim. >> 20 seconds for mr. rangel.