Ash Carter: “Yes, I am concerned about the risk the Department of Defense (DOD) is forced to accept in global infrastructure…”

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

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

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.

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