Ash Carter: “We want them to continue to be isolated as a military and limited in terms of the kinds of equipment and materials they…”

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.

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

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

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