James Jeffrey: “We wouldn't pick these allies if we were coming up with a different Middle East, but we have to deal with the Middle…”

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.

We will press for the withdrawal of all Iranian forces from the entirety Syria.

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.

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.