James Jeffrey: “This and the last administration's combination of playing defense, protecting the homeland, and going on the offense...…”

Our bottom line is this conflict must end and it must end now.

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.

It has been American leadership through two Administrations. It has been an 80-country, an organization coalition, a true international effort.

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.