“Syria represents the latest opportunity for the United States to support a people’s aspirations for more freedom and to condemn repression by an entrenched regime. Yet the president has said little. More and more, the US looks irrelevant to a growing movement of millions across North Africa and the Middle East.”

— Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), the Senate’s No. 2 Republican, calling on President Obama to publicly support anti-government protestors in Syria