Ash Carter: “I believe the President's AUMF does both, and I urge Congress to pass it.”

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

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

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.