James Jeffrey: “I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been…”

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…

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

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…