Ash Carter: “I am in favor of reintroducing to the acquisition system the role of the customer, which is the chiefs of the military…”

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

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.

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.