I'm concerned about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that ignores Russia's aggressiveness in its near abroad. I'm concerned about the willingn…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

I know that presidents often have really bad phone conversations. What they usually don't do is go out and talk about it. That gets to my point about…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

The Iraqi government and most Iraqis understand that they have to bring back the Sunni Arab 20, 25 percent of the population. It won't work with thes…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

At the end of the day, it is what Donald Trump does or doesn't do as crises come up and as he tries to advance his agenda. He can hurt it on the marg…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We should use military strikes ag…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

As a longtime career guy, I like quiet diplomacy behind closed doors. This is not what we're getting with Donald Trump. At the end of the day, it's w…

- James Franklin Jeffrey

NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all…

- James Franklin Jeffrey