James Jeffrey: “I have no moral hesitation in asking other countries to do more and the American public to do less.”

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 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.

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.

Russia presses for a premature withdrawal of U.S. and coalition forces. Such an untimely U.S. military departure would enable ISIS to return, allow Iran to fill the vacuum, place Iraq's stability at risk, and increase the threats to…