01/15/2014
https://www.congress.gov...
"we're not going to defeat ISIS with just airpower. Everybody knows that."
"we've got to find a strategy that allows us to move Assad aside in some way, working with the Russians, if necessary, or the Iranians, if necessary, because he's the irritant that's keeping this thing..."
"If we win a town in Syria and lose 10,000 kids in France or Belgium or Florida or Ohio, that's not victory."
"If we can work with other parties, particularly Russia, to move Assad off the stage, then you've got an Arab army, a Muslim army, in Syria."