James Jeffrey: “I am very disappointed. The rest of the world is disappointed, and God bless you in an impossible job you have been…”

There is no doubt, including in the White House, that Iran is an extremely dangerous, expansionist force in the region.

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…

It's unpleasant, it's transactional, it's ugly, but we and Turkey have very similar strategic goals.

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.