James Jeffrey: “We think that this regime needs to subject itself to the U.N. process, free and fair elections, a new constitution or at…”

If we do not play the kind of very costly and at times very difficult role that we play in the world, then you get a Syria; you get a law of the jungle in a very important area where you do have, as I said, five armies.

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.

He has shown little willingness to be flexible on any issue, and at the moment may be concluding that it is better to sit on a pile of rubble with half his population and 60 percent of his country than to compromise.

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