Tim Kaine actually said...

"I sent a letter to the President noting the constitutional role of Congress in such decisions."

"The idealists always felt that the only time you should intervene internationally... is when there is a strong humanitarian, moral need to do so."

"You do not intervene because of moral reasons. You intervene because of very concrete, tactical interests or tangible interests."

"We are facing what amounts to being both a humanitarian crisis but we are also facing increasingly a crisis and a threat that takes on a national security character to it."