Ash Carter: “The U.S. rebalance towards Asia is durable and will persist and grow regardless of automatic, widespread budget cuts…”

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.

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