secretary of defense ash carter warned donald trump about having a warmer relationship with russia. | ap photo by louis nelson 11/11/16 09:41 am est defense secretary ash carter said he would advise the incoming administration to <u+201c>keep at the campaign<u+201d> to defeat the islamic state and praised the institutional knowledge of america<u+2019>s military officers who have developed an understanding of counterterrorism campaigns in the 15 years since the sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. while carter's comments did not directly address president-elect donald trump, they did seem to go against the manhattan billionaire's claim that "i know more about isis than the generals do," and his proposal that he "would bomb the shit out of" islamic state targets. story continued below in an exclusive veterans<u+2019> day interview that aired friday morning on <u+201c>cbs this morning,<u+201d> carter said the u.s. is already bombing the militant group <u+201c>an awful lot,<u+201d> so much so that he added that islamic state targets cannot move at night. carter took great pains not to comment on the election of trump as the country<u+2019>s next president, a result that means his tenure at the pentagon is likely to come to an end when president barack obama leaves office. he said <u+201c>we stand apart from politics,<u+201d> but as he took questions from o<u+2019>donnell, his answers offered a clear divergence from the positions the president-elect took on the campaign trail. trump, for example, has promised a warmer, more cooperative relationship with russia, something carter advised against, telling o<u+2019>donnell that, <u+201c>they<u+2019>re not doing what we need to do and think needs to be done [in syria].<u+201d> carter added that russia has broken its promise to combat terrorism and help end the civil war in syria, and its involvement there only <u+201c>fuels the fires<u+201d> of ongoing violence. <u+201c>what the russians said, if you<u+2019>ll remember, was that they were going to come in and fight terrorism and help remove assad,<u+201d> said. <u+201c>they haven<u+2019>t done either of those things. they haven't done any of that.<u+201d> <u+201c>they're helping assad,<u+201d> replied anchor norah o<u+2019>donnell. <u+201c>exactly. which in turn simply fuels the fires of the syrians civil war. so the russians have been completely backwards there, in what they've been doing,<u+201d> the defense secretary said. <u+201c>so we have not been able to, and i have not been in favor, and am not recommending to the president that we associate ourselves with or work with the russians until they start doing the right thing.<u+201d> by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
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