Tom Malinowski actually said...

"It's also the moment where we have the maximum amount of leverage on the people who may form that government in the future."

"I think there's a very strong argument here for patience and for following the kind of approach that the United States followed, for example, in the case of Kosovo."

"I'm not entirely comfortable with the use of the term 'civil war' in this case."

"I still prefer those uncertainties to the certainties we would have faced, had this not happened."