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

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

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

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

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…