James Jeffrey: “We think that this regime needs to subject itself to the U.N. process, free and fair elections, a new constitution or at…”

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.

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.

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

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…