Edward Markey actually said...

"I do not want to be in a world where President-elect Trump announces that he is giving up on regime change without a strategy simultaneously that there is a plan in place that then gives guarantees to..."

"Working with Russia on Syria's civil war would essentially mean joining Assad's campaign to militarily conquer all of those opposed to Assad."

"I think that it is going to be a very, very tricky situation, and I worry that they will view anything that stabilizes the Assad regime as being an unintended signal to them to fund Sunni extremists."

"The administration announced that this week it would increase the supply of arms to Kurdish militant groups in Syria."