tomahawk missiles. the president hasn t taken any further action against president bashar assad. he must leave, he must lead leae country. he s not even convinced that assad was behind the chemical attacks. congressman, matthew of kentuck kentucky. state your position for us. you don t think assad was behind the chemical attack? the first casualty of war, we re going to have four versions of the story coming forward, we are going to have the u.s. version, the russian version, assad s version and then there s going to be the truth in there. we haven t been provided the details and i think it s incumbent for at least for
bashar assad. one person believes he must leave, he must leave the country. he s not even convinced that assad was behind the chemical attacks. c congressman thomas massie ofsa kentucky. thanks for coming on. state your position for us. you don t think assad was behind the chemical attack? the first casualty of war, we re going to have four versions of the story coming forward, we are going to have the u.s. version, the russian version, assad s version and then there s going to be the truth in there. we haven t been provided the details and i think it s incumbent for at least for congress.
one of his principle tasks is to put together strategies. and particularly this one we better be working very quickly to put one to determine where does it end. where do we want to wind up and how are we going to get there? you have to start at the end and work backwards. you to articulate what it is you re trying to accomplish before you allocate resources to do it. if you do things in the piecemeal manner, as we discovered long throughout our history, you wind up down a road you don t want to be. i m old enough to have fought in a war in vietnam where we incrementalized everything with no real overall strategy, no longer term objective toward which we were working with the means that we had at our disposal. and we have been doing that in this area for a long time. i think one of the reasons that mcmaster is in that job, one of the reasons that general mattis recommended him to the president to be the national security
the iranians and hezbollah are the ones who are most likely to carry out some kind of actions either in syria or outside of syria in response to this. remember that hezbollah, an iranian client, is probably the world s most effective and diverse dispersed terrorist organization. so we ll see what happens on that front. and certainly on that same front, reaction as well and how that will be received in the other parts of the world stage, in asia and china and in north korea as the president was hosting president xi jinping as well. we ll continue this conversation with you, christopher dickey, along with our other panelists here cal perry. we ll do that after the break.
american message has been received. not only in damascus, but also in moscow and tehran as well. all right, doctor. it s a great pleasure to talk to you. thank you for joining us with that insight and perspective. not to be missed is the president s decision to fire missiles into syria as he met with chinese president xi jinping for the very first time. joining us from seoul, south korea is general nice mar je mackey. the crisis in north korea, the threat that country poses. a lot of people interpreting what happened tonight in syria as a message to the chinese president we will act alone when our international security interests are at stake. and we re willing to do the same in north korea. that a message that is playing out on the korean peninsula tonight? well, it is a valid interpretation the. and what has happened will most definitely reframe the discussion that president trump and xi jinping will be having