Ash Carter: “The world is watching us.”

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.

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

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