“outline specific faults he finds in the pact”

Read the propaganda those intent on war have prepared for him ...

“support for Syrian President Bashar Assad”

Sadly, when the US, Israel, and their regional co-conspirators engineered the criminal proxy war to dominate Syria under a dictator that would answer to Washington, they handed Syria and its allies the legal right to defend the country against it. Something objective journalists would mention.

US intelligence now acknowledges that the choice made by these states to coordinate/import, train, arm, supply, finance, and direct Sunni terrorists in Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey gave IS its biggest boost.

“other groups that destabilize the region”

Nobody does as much to destabilize the region as the US and Israel.