The hard reality is that the grinding Syrian civil war is now an incubator of extremism on both sides of the sectarian divide.
we are going to get in a position where we have anything but the potential of a failed state and the consequences of what that that means to...
The conflict and the Assad regime have become a magnet for foreign fighters, many affiliated with terrorist groups.
Putin's game is not 21st century statesmanship, but 19th century gamesmanship.
I think the new Ukrainian Government has done a good job of making clear its concern about Ukrainian citizens, west and east, across the who...
unless, as this committee voted quite some time ago in a bipartisan fashion to arm the vetted Syrian moderate rebels, nothing will change in...
Putin has cast aside both international law and his nation's own commitments to respect the territorial integrity of the Ukraine.
So the surprise was the timing rather than that they actually took this step.
I do not want to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat, Mr. Chairman.
The national security challenges we have, they're the most--debt that we can control doesn't match up to an Iranian nuclear threat.
We've not had a war that's been 13 years of continuous warfare before.