the kosovo operation. i just think that if we are to undertake strikes, they ought to be effective and what s being considered now is really more symbolic than it is significant. jon: going after air force targets, for instance, may be cratering runways. i m all for cratering runways, okay? then don t tell the syrian regime we re going to hit these runways where your republican guard units are stationed, where your soviet attack helicopters are stationed. they re just going to move them. it s the most extraordinary thing. i ve never seen an administration so precisely leak what it intends to do with a military strike. it could be a great head fake and if so, all power to the administration. what it seems they re doing is telegraphing our war plans to hur enemy. jon: isn t the problem here iran? iran is supporting the syrian