James Jeffrey: “Everybody wants this war to end. Everybody wants refugees and IDPs to return, and everybody wants the fighting and this…”

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

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…

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…

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.