John Kerry actually said...

I don't think we've persuaded ourselves that our intervention will necessarily make a bad situation better.

We must recognize that we face an all-too-familiar foreign policy conundrum: There is a large gap between the professed goals of the United ...

But, just because we can't help everybody, everywhere, doesn't mean that, for the sake of consistency, we should help nobody, nowhere.

They need help in setting up a justice system, courts, police, all of the elements of a functioning state.