Joseph Lieberman actually said...

Assad is not a good man. He is a bad man. He is a brutal dictator.

we have got to--we can't pivot away from any one region in the world because they all matter to our security and our prosperity.

I think that the administration's pulling back from global leadership more generally has contributed significantly to that view.

It requires the discrediting of violent Islamist extremism as an ideology, and let me underscore here the enemy is violent Islamist extremis...