James Jeffrey: “It's unpleasant, it's transactional, it's ugly, but we and Turkey have very similar strategic goals.”

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.

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

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…