Ben Cardin actually said...

But my question is the aid that has been made available to date--are we moving in the right direction or are we just institutionalizing the ...

We have had our military presence, but we also have had an effort to provide economic development assistance to the people of Afghanistan.

I think it's going to be a real challenge because we're not necessarily paying salaries or competing with the Afghan Government.

We could talk about the military aspects and the fact that we are looking toward a redeployment of our combat troops starting in the next mo...