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.

We remain deeply concerned by the Cuban Government's repeated use of arbitrary detention, at times with violence, to silence critics.

The Assad regime... unleashed an outrageous chemical attack against its own citizens.