Ash Carter: “We're not trying to carry out a strategy that is 4 years old. We're trying to carry out our strategy of today.”

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

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.