The Obama administration this week all but admitted that it’s out of ideas on how to influence the outcome of Syria’s civil war, and was reduced on Thursday to blaming Russia and Syria for imposing a military solution after the U.S. insisted that only a political solution was possible.

But a key House lawmaker says there are still concrete steps the U.S. can take to mitigate the violence in Syria, and ideas that haven’t been tried yet.

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