I hope, finally, we're really going to do something about it, because it's just--it's stunning, really, the--almost--it's a kind of arrogance, maybe, or something, on our part, that we don't think we have to--but, we just don't know countries or understand them as well and do as well unless we can show a greater respect and have a greater language capacity.
Dodd emphasizes the importance of language understanding in foreign relations.
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