How do we change from quantity to quality to get the value for our dollars?
It also more importantly comes down to lives.
This is not a weeks or months long process. It is a year's long process.
Does it make sense to have a national police force that basically the tribal leaders do not recognize, they do not know.
So $11.6 billion is to basically uplift the police and army in Afghanistan.
I am a firm believer in contracts and dates. As it is the rule of law, we have a date.
How much is it going to cost? I mean what is the number that the American people are ultimately going to be responsible for?
I'm concerned that every day that we delay is another day that they have to get closer to the capability to export terrorism around the regi...
It really comes down to the money; without money and without the refining products that they need to survive, they're not going to do anythi...
I don't believe that Iran takes us seriously when it comes to demanding full disclosure with regard to their nuclear capabilities.
I do think visa access is terribly important because that is what helps give the people of the region a vision for where they're going.
You set up a plan and you have metrics and you see whether or not it's getting done or not.
If we push and push and push, that issue could become involved in the election campaign.
I don't think that's smart.
If you want to get this done, you can get it done and there's plenty of folks out there that are willing to help you.
I would just urge you to do as much as you can to see if you can't get some dialogue going on between them.
The consensus from most of the people that we talked with that the Butmir process was not as fruitful.
I think we should be talking about what happens after that and what bothers me a bit is that we've kind of let that alone.
