Ash Carter: “I do support the President's decision to withdraw 30,000 U.S. surge forces from Afghanistan by next summer.”

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

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.

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.