Ash Carter: “Any proposed change or changes to the current system will be evaluated carefully and consideration of those obligations…”

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

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

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