Ash Carter: “The President has outlined a framework for the authorities he believes will be necessary to pursue this long-term…”

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.

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.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

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