It's good to take time to reflect because it's always good to celebrate victories, and the more rare they are, the more important it is to celebrate them. But it's also good to take time to reflect because we might learn something that will help us win more victories in the future. It's also good to try to fix the memory of the moment of victory, because a key way that people are kept down is drumming into their heads the belief that they can never win.

We haven't completely stopped the U.S. from bombing Syria for all time. I judge that current reports from DC and the diplomatic front look reassuring, in the sense that I do not believe that the Administration will bomb Syria without Congressional consent, and I do not believe that the Administration will get Congressional consent in anything like the current situation.