Chuck Hagel: “I did vote against it, and I was going to explain why I voted against it.”

The President has determined that closing it is a national security imperative.

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

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

When the National Guard opened up on students and killed students, partly because they weren't trained, they panicked.