James Jeffrey: “Any action taken that makes Iran happy in the region is a mistake, and this made Iran happy, thus it's a mistake.”

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

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…

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.

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