John Kerry actually said...

"I do believe, however, that the United States should up its assistance to the rebels."

"Had we based our strategy last winter on what was happening on the ground in Syria, we would have had much better visibility..."

"We cannot appear to be feckless or impotent or ineffective in the face of this kind of use of force by anybody against their own people."

"things are likely to get a lot worse before they get any better, and the human suffering, therefore, is likely only to increase, perhaps dramatically."