John Kerry actually said...

"Our ability to advance these goals will tend to be in direct proportion to the help the United States provides the opposition."

"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..."

"It is time, I think, to address them at the highest levels, and I think more can be done by the President with President Putin to try to find a way forward that starts with agreeing that Assad has to ..."