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

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…

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.

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.