James Jeffrey: “Military force is a necessary, but not sufficient, part of the package to deal with the Iranian threats to the region.”

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.

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 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.