Ash Carter: “Our view is that everybody ought to resolve those peacefully and not militarize those features.”

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

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.

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.