because a year ago he had done a raid and said they're not going to try this again, 0 are if they do, we'd come back at them. there wasn't much question he would come back at them. i agree with general think it wo do this with allies. that's a nice sign. but i think the real problem we have going forward is we don't have a syria policy. this issue is getting worse and worse. we're seeing iranian encroachment in these sunni-arab lands. there is a lot of concern right now where the middle east is going and we need an administration that knows how to pay some attention. >> we learned there is going to be an all-senators briefing tomorrow by defense secretary mattis. what might we learn from this all-senators meeting, if anything? >> probably very little. i think ambassador hill's entirely right, there isn't a strategy. i'm sort of sympathetic to the administration. it's hard to know what we could do. assad is on the verge of