James Jeffrey: “Clearly Iran's pursuit of a nuclear weapons option... is the most dangerous thing that they could possibly do.”

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…

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…

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.