Ash Carter: “Our strategy is to find, identify, and enable forces that can not only take territory, but hold territory.”

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.

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