Ashton Carter said...

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

We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.

We are concerned about that prospect. And is it consistent? No, it is not consistent.

I agree with you, also, about the Assad regime. It's a reason why Assad can't be part of the future of that country.