This week, Mark Zuckerberg was called out not on just one but two carpets to explain Facebook to House and Senate committees.

We'll take a deep dive into high tech and how it's changed our lives beyond challenging the privacy of 87 million Facebook subscribers.

But first, there's another big story this week, and that's Bashir Assad's attack on his own people

with chemical weapons. President Trump has called it atrocious. As we speak, we don't know how he plans to punish the Assad regime, but one big question is whether American troops can make any difference in Syria.

Gordon Adams worked with both parties in Congress. He was senior budget official for national security in Bill Clinton's White House.

He's now Professor Emeritus at American University and Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center.

Welcome to our podcast.

Thank you, Warren. Good to be with you.

What are the options?

Well, we got a number of options.

Some of them in real deal with this chemical weapons issue, and some of them deal with the broader question of whether the American

troops should actually stay in Syria.

As you know, the president suggested about a week ago that he thought we ought to be leaving

and was pushed back by his generals who basically were worried that they might be losing

something they were on the verge of winning.

So there's a bigger question than just a strike.

And we're going to be, I think, to some degree, deluded into thinking that the issue is a strike

about chemical weapons, when the real fundamental issue of the United States faces is whether

or not staying there in military terms buys us anything.

And, you know, my own view of this is it does not.

And there's going to be, I think, quite a policy argument over that next week or two,

and even in the next months, especially with John Bolton newly at the National

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