James Jeffrey: “There is no doubt, including in the White House, that Iran is an extremely dangerous, expansionist force in the region.”

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.

You are always facing the possibility of something that approaches ethnic cleansing to essentially get borders shaped so that only your kind of people are in those borders.

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

If those troops are withdrawn fully, a very important tool we had to keep ISIS under control will be gone.