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 what America does, how people perceive us, in the long run, our… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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 against ISIS when they threaten the Shia areas or Baghdad. We need… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about Donald Trump's relationship with Russia that ignores Russia's aggressiveness in its near abroad. I'm concerned about the willingness to question alliances… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Presidents always - not always, but often have bad conversations with counterparts. They just don't go out and embarrass their counterpart by talking about… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
Optimism is in short supply in the Middle East, but what I do think is the administration needs to step up its act. We… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
