James Jeffrey: “We shouldn't be bombing Sunni areas, what we have is these columns of ISIS fighters, heavily equipped, moving around to…”

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.

what kind of message does that send and why would anybody want to be our allies in the future?

the U.S. will not tolerate, quote, 'an attack, period, and that any offensive is to us objectionable as a reckless escalation.'

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…