Ash Carter: “Our approach has been... to try to find a political exit for Bashar Assad rather than a United States-led military exit.”

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

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.

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

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