Robert Menendez actually said...

I believe that, absent a change on the ground, diplomacy alone is unlikely to end the Syrian war.

The only way forward is to expend every effort to achieve a broad political solution and to resolve this conflict through negotiations that ...

What would fill the vacuum of a decreased U.S. role in the world is an incredibly dangerous question.

Aggressive intervention without clear goals... has led us to wars that have destabilized entire regions.