Robert Menendez actually said...

I appreciate that distinction, but making it clear is going to be critically important because there are many people who did not have cracks...

we cannot cede foreign policy decision-making to the Department of Defense or the Intelligence Community.

Airstrikes are not a policy. Intelligence-gathering operations are not a policy.

I think we must be clear in naming the regime... a dictatorship, because that is what it is.