Rob Portman actually said...

All of us must condemn these hateful acts, I think you have properly said that we have a role in simply speaking up more and more forcefully...

We have seen President Putin do this in Ukraine. He is doing it as we talk.

Any venture, any military operation, across the border into northern Syria... puts the civilian population in the crosshairs.

I think it is difficult for us to get them to help us in terms of isolating him and certainly not developing a normal relationship with him.