Theodore Deutch actually said...

We still have leadership with the Europeans and with international organizations to deny political recognition and international legitimacy ...

Sanctions--many other governments are at this point contemplating whether or not to go back into Damascus, especially as we see what happens...

We sit here at this moment, with Assad having slaughtered over 600,000 people, and almost 6 million refugees...

I do not need to have a zero sum approach to Russia. Not everything that Russia does is inherently threatening to the United States.