Ash Carter: “I just wanted you to know where I'm coming from.”

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

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

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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.