I mean, I asked in the session we had with Prime Minister Hariri.
if we are seeking to see some curtailment of the threat that Hezbollah poses, the most potent terrorist organization next to al-Qaeda
If that changed inside Lebanon, I think a lot of the dynamics would change, too.
I think that the Lebanese Government has been--I think that in a perfect world they would not want to do this.
We are grateful for your presence here, especially the members of both panels.
But if Hezbollah media, Hezbollah political organs are so threatened by what we are doing with the ISF, I have to say what we are doing must...
I would absolutely condition it.
I just want to give people a sense of the--a little bit of a sense of the geography.
It was a positive signal, I thought, to send that we were serious about the relationship.
I wanted to just follow up on that. I want to have each of our witnesses address this question.
And I realize that a good bit of this you would have to speak of, or speak about, in a classified setting.
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I'm a strong supporter of theirs. Very few that I could point to are stronger supporters.