Ash Carter: “I very much hope that we can find a way together out of the wilderness of sequester.”

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

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

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.

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.