James Jeffrey: “Our top-line goal for a Syria that we and the international community can live with is one that does not support…”

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…

I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been given to justify that.

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

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.