He has shown little willingness to be flexible on any issue, and at the moment may be concluding that it is better to sit on a pile of rubble with half his population and 60 percent of his country than to compromise.
Jeffrey comments on Assad's inflexibility in negotiations.
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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.
It has been American leadership through two Administrations. It has been an 80-country, an organization coalition, a true international effort.
If the regime and its sponsors do not accept this path forward, we, aligned with much of the international community, will continue the very broad economic and diplomatic pressure on this regime.