this sounds very suspcious to me why after cutting millitary programs and budgets ( downsizing ). why would the president do it this way. it would seem to me that if his goal was to go into syria why do it in such a haphazrd and dangerous way. we took libya, and syria has a 1000 times more internal atrocities going on for quite some time now, my guess is that in cutting the defense budget he rubbed alot of high up lifers in the millitary, the wrong way and this is his payback.