I will never forget on a trip to Darfur meeting with a Major Ajumbo who was with the AU, he was also in the Balkans, and he said our rules of engagements here are very similar in terms of protection as they were in the Balkans.

We need to match supply with demand, and we have talked about that as well today.

For 61 years, they have served our interest, and you have laid it out pretty well in your testimony all the various aspects of that.

We will not sit idly by until the blue helmet is restored.

Jane Holl Lute, who is now back in the administration, was the U.N. Assistant Secretary General for mission support, she was outraged as were others in the U.N.

There is much to be done to strengthen U.N. peacekeeping, and that has been, as you know, the theme we have been discussing and its various aspects most of the morning.

We heard that before, and it was not like the U.K. was spared.

I apologize, Mr. Chairman, for going on so long.

But somebody still has to define whether you are a riskier firm by your product line.

Which would be a difficult assessment to make at a State level.

we ought to have a mechanism to allow that entity to go ahead and fail and not simply be propped up by taxpayer funds

Buyer beware.

we need to have some mechanism in a sense of a prefunding of resolution so that we do not end up as taxpayers being caught basically footing the bill

The big question we have, we have no resolution authority for the whole nonbank half of the financial world that in many ways caused our problem.

I think you teed up a very good point that--you know, and I come as a nonbiased party to this optional Federal charter or State charter debate.

If you choose to do a whole series of what would be viewed by someone as a risky product line, there would be additional cost to it.

We have no judicial precedents for the conviction of someone like this.

I have got another--I am just going to make one quick comment, because I do not want to interfere on Senator Martinez's time.