James Jeffrey

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion or Turkish military action against them.

There's a fundamental difference that we do not make clear as a country, let alone an administration, between putting troops under treaty obligations to defend territory and people against somebody else and the troops that we had in…

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been given to justify that.

You are always facing the possibility of something that approaches ethnic cleansing to essentially get borders shaped so that only your kind of people are in those borders.

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.

Whatever it takes--well, whatever political process and diplomatic process is necessary to get that government to behave differently toward its own population and to its neighbors, that is an absolutely essential precondition for a…

A political solution is highly unlikely with a government acting the way the current Assad government acts.

Russia presses for a premature withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces. Such an untimely U.S. military departure would enable ISIS to return, allow Iran to fill the vacuum, place Iraq's stability at risk, and increase the threats to…

It is a good example of how we can succeed by, with, and through the international community and local partners, and it is a good model for the future.