James Jeffrey: “That's the horror scenario that's going to turn the whole region into a Shiite Sunni civil war.”

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

Our bottom line is this conflict must end and it must end now.

Whatever it takes--well, whatever political process and diplomatic process is necessary to get that government to behave differently toward its own population and to its neighbors, that is an absolutely essential precondition for a…

Everybody wants this war to end. Everybody wants refugees and IDPs to return, and everybody wants the fighting and this danger of an escalation to stop.