Ash Carter: “I support the President's commitment to vetoing any bill that locks in sequestration, because to do otherwise would be…”

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.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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.