James Jeffrey: “We really have to draw the line here and push back very hard on this.”

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

A political solution is highly unlikely with a government acting the way the current Assad government acts.

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.