James Jeffrey: “We need to be present in Syria, and the battle against ISIS gives us an opportunity to do so.”

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.

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

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

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…