John Kerry actually said...

When I was recently in Syria, President Assad talked to me about the possibilities for that kind of an opening.

I have enormous respect for General McChrystal, I think he's a terrific soldier, and this is a critical moment in Afghanistan.

Turkey played a very significant role, as Senator Kerry knows, in 2008 in facilitating an indirect exchange between Syria and Israel.

These steps to increase pressure are necessary, not because we want to target Iran, but because Iran itself has decided to continue to defy ...