William Kristol wants to go to war in Syria, but he won't say what that war should look like. Appearing on Fox News Sunday to discuss reports of chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the Weekly Standard editor (and noted Iraq war hawk) attacked President Obama as “totally irresponsible” for indicating that he doesn't want “to start another war,” saying: “You've got to do what you've got to do.” 

When host Chris Wallace pointed out to him that there are “no good choices” for intervening in the Syrian conflict and asked, “so what do you do?,” Kristol brushed it off without indicating how he thought the president should respond: “You do what you think is best. You're commander in chief, you've got an awful lot of options.”

Kristol's call for (non-specific) military action got a boost from Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume, who observed: “There's something to be said for doing something. That if they cross a line, you've got to do something. Now whatever it is may not directly affect the chemical weapons use, but if it directly affects and harms the regime's prospects in the war, that would at least be a consequence.”

According to Hume, doing “something” (whatever that is) wouldn't be as difficult as people suspect. “This isn't Mission: Impossible.”