07/01/2025
https://www.nbcnews.com...
"U.S. policy toward Syria is difficult for everyone to address."
"What started as peaceful protests in March 2011, is now an international conflict."
"It is not at all a myth. You need only have an off-the-record conversation with any one of the members of the ambassadorial corps and other officials, whether it's NATO or the European Union."
"One of the most encouraging developments that I've seen in Iran is what is happening on the street--these remarkably brave ordinary Iranians who are protesting their own regime."