James Jeffrey: “It is a mistake for us to get out of that country. Iraq is crucial not only to prevent Sunni extremism.”

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…

Well, first of all, we did not bring it. The Iraqis wanted it. And in the end, they have a constitutional democratic system.

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.

It was a mistake not to tell them before they learned about it from the media.