Richard Lugar actually said...

The regime's shocking brutality over the past 5 months and opposition figures' outreach to these communities is eroding that support.

Lugar notes the diminishing support for Assad due to his regime's violence.

03/15/2011

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Russia represents significant challenges, as well as opportunities, for the Obama administration.

Vital to our efforts toward a nuclear-free world is a greater effort from Russia to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

You take away that economic growth and prosperity that millions of Russians have been experiencing and he would not be nearly so popular.

Our most time-sensitive agenda item with Russia is the preservation of the START treaty.