Ash Carter: “I strongly incline toward opening them all to women, but I am also respectful of the circumstances and of professional…”

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.

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

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