James Jeffrey: “We would much prefer to pursue the positive agenda of deescalation and political reinvigoration I just described, but we…”

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.

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…

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

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