Ash Carter: “You cannot do defense or national security with a 1 year-at-a-time approach.”

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

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

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.