Ash Carter: “I therefore appeal to members of Congress, from both parties, to start looking for ways to find a truly bipartisan…”

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.