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.
The Russians cannot bomb their way to peace. The Iranians cannot prop up Assad forever.
Any party responsible for these crimes must be brought to justice for the abuses which defy international law.
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.
Isolationism... will create the type of permissive environment in which our enemies will thrive.
I know that we collectively as Republicans and Democrats alike certainly want people to pay their fair taxes.