Ash Carter: “The conflict in Syria will not end until Assad is gone, as he has lost legitimacy to govern Syria.”

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.

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

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.