Ash Carter: “We have a magnificent force in terms of the quality of the people we have, but that is because we are able to be…”

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.

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

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