The Angst in Foggy Bottom - By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Foreign Policy

The Angst in Foggy Bottom - By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon | Foreign Policy: The use of qualifiers and the focus on the evidence from the White House is no accident: Past intelligence failures and the public's war exhaustion loom over the entire discussion of what to do when it comes to Syria. But among many at the State Department, as the death toll from the conflict climbs toward 100,000 people and the refugee population soars into the millions, a sense of "huge frustration" is growing, one department source said.