James Jeffrey: “I think there may be some hope for offline, direct United States-Iranian talks, which the door does seem to be open to.”

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

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.

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

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…