Kerry Uses Vietnam War Peace Talks as Reference for Syria Policy

Published February 6, 2014 4:14pm ET



In an interview on Wednesday, CNN’s Jake Tapper questioned Secretary of State John Kerry about Iran, the security of the Sochi Olympics, and Syria. On the latter issue, Tapper asked the secretary point blank if the Obama administration’s Syria policy had failed:

TAPPER:  The director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, said that Bashar al-Assad in Syria has been strengthened since the chemical weapons deal.  The United Nations says that Assad’s regime is torturing children.  He seems to be – Assad seems to be slow-walking the chemical weapons process and those are only the weapons that he’s acknowledged he has, not other ones that he might be stockpiling, according to other reports. 
Hasn’t the policy in Syria failed?

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