James Jeffrey: “This is a brutal dictator. He should be held accountable for his crimes.”

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.

A political solution is highly unlikely with a government acting the way the current Assad government acts.

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.

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…