John Kerry actually said...

I do not think anybody wants to get into a long-term ground operation here.

So now you are telling me we have a strategy to defeat Bashar Assad, and we have a strategy to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

I think everybody ought to try to help find the way to work that through, and in the doing so, we can ensure that we have the kind of broad-...

The President has made it clear it is not his policy. And I have never seen anybody more adamant about that.