John Kerry: “I think we have the ability to play a hugely constructive role in what happens and how events unfold in the Middle East.”

you cannot just sit there anywhere and wish that things are going to be as they have been historically.

The era of the Monroe Doctrine is over.

People think this is now, you cannot reverse it, it is irreversible.

It's a matter of mathematics and physics, not politics, not ideology. It is a response to the science.