James Jeffrey: “We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.”

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

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

You are always facing the possibility of something that approaches ethnic cleansing to essentially get borders shaped so that only your kind of people are in those borders.

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