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You mentioned that you've jumped--and you gave us the chart here that goes from 20 containers a week up to 350 containers a week.

What--how would you characterize the safety of the transportation across these routes?

And are they ship-delivered, or air-delivered?

The--you mentioned Russia be allowing us to cross--and obviously you have it on the map here, where we are crossing Russia with these containers.

I'm looking, here, at the map, and I assume the green that's on here are the main routes that we're talking about.

Thank you for holding this hearing on this very important region of the world.

But, again, I come back to--the President talked about July 2011. Karzai's talking about 5 years before they're ready to take it over.

I really question whether you're going to have the same security situation in Afghanistan that you have in Iraq right now.

I don't know where we are. You know, are we in or are we out?

I don't think the American people are going to accept that.

15 years is an open-ended commitment.

As polarized as this country is politically, this is an issue that we really, really all need to pull together on.

The sense of urgency really seems to be lacking there

I think that's a positive that we should look at, and the fact that we have driven al-Qaeda out of Afghanistan

The cost of failure, then, is grave.

I think everyone would agree with this--was to get al-Qaeda, to stop al-Qaeda, to squelch al-Qaeda.

I view this, really, not as a Republican problem or a Democrat problem; this is an American problem.

They must begin to accept their responsibility for their own security