James Jeffrey: “We would much prefer to pursue the positive agenda of deescalation and political reinvigoration I just described, but we…”

We think that this regime needs to subject itself to the U.N. process, free and fair elections, a new constitution or at least a reformed constitution, and a nationwide cease-fire.

Everybody wants this war to end. Everybody wants refugees and IDPs to return, and everybody wants the fighting and this danger of an escalation to stop.

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.

I agree with the CENTCOM assessment. ISIS is still there in the northeast and throughout Syria.