Ash Carter: “It's a sovereign decision by Iraq, but, I'll tell you, we're not uninterested in it.”

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

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.

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

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.