Ash Carter: “I am confident that we're on the path toward this transition.”

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.

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

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.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.