Ash Carter: “The United States remains the strongest, most resilient, and most influential nation on earth.”

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.

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

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

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