James Jeffrey: “I took this job on the assumption that this Administration would stand by its commitments and would hold the line on…”

If we do not play the kind of very costly and at times very difficult role that we play in the world, then you get a Syria; you get a law of the jungle in a very important area where you do have, as I said, five armies.

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

We think that this regime needs to subject itself to the U.N. process, free and fair elections, a new constitution or at least a reformed constitution, and a nationwide cease-fire.

I think the Syrian people, when they marched in 2011, wanted the same thing, and they still want the same thing.