Without confirming that Scuds have been fired, the U.S. State Department spokeswoman said the recent use of incendiary barrel bombs showed that President Assad's forces were resorting to, what she called, increased lethality.
Oh, well, Minister, as long as you are not asking me to resort to crude generalizations and vulgar oversimplifications, such as a simple yes or no, I shall do my utmost to oblige.
To deal with something means to sort it, to fix it-and if you complain and it's not dealt with, then, he says, people turn to social media as a form of escalation.
It took six months to come to this, but as our Senior White House Correspondent Charles Bierbauer reports, President Bush believed early on in this crisis that it would ultimately be settled with force.