Theodore Deutch actually said...

"We have urgently been asking the administration for clarity on its greater strategy for the future of Syria."

"We have since passed a bill bearing his name, the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act to hold the Assad regime and its international backers accountable for the ongoing atrocities."

"These goals are laudable, and they are important, but the speech contained little in the way of concrete strategies to actually achieve these goals."

"What may have begun as a civil war has morphed into a complex array of geopolitical power struggles and proxy conflicts."