Robert Menendez actually said...

"We need to be clear about what Iran is interested in in Syria, and that is, they want a government in Damascus that has good relations with Hezbollah and will give Hezbollah sustained strategic depth ..."

"We have lost the opportunity and emboldened and strengthened our enemies whether those are Assad, Iran, Russia, the Islamic State."

"The degree of carnage and butchery is unparalleled today, and it has bled over into Europe in a trail of death."

"This policy option is infeasible for the United States, from moral, political, and security standpoints."