Chuck Hagel: “The record is actually very, very positive. It's just that we have not explained it very well.”

There's a perception that it is the military's responsibility to fix the problem. Problems are not fixed by militaries.

The President has said, many times, still strongly believes, that Assad has lost the legitimacy to govern his own people.

When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integrity behind them, that's where you start.

I think that is really the essence of the ultimate objective we'd like to see in Syria.