John Kerry actually said...

If you are Assad or if you are any one of the other despots in that region, and the United States steps back from this moment... what is the...

He is asking only for the power to make clear, to make certain, that the United States means what we say.

The world wonders whether the United States of America will consent through silence to standing aside.

When someone kills and injures hundreds of children with a weapon the world has banned, we are all responsible.