James Jeffrey: “we would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion or Turkish military action against…”

What we got was a marginal product. It also does the job for 10 years of keeping them a year away from having a nuclear capability if they adhere to it.

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

It's unpleasant, it's transactional, it's ugly, but we and Turkey have very similar strategic goals.

I think Russia's support for the Assad regime is a mistake.