William R. Brownfield: “If we do not have an adequate and functioning road system, counter-narcotic strategy will not succeed.”

The overwhelming majority of the heroin that is now entering the United States is coming from Mexico.

If we are not working with those partners, we are at a minimum--at a minimum--failing to make use of a very effective means to multiply the impact of whatever we are doing.

We have got to get our head around that problem set, and we will have to address it or we will pay very long term consequences.

If you take ivory completely out of any commercial value whatsoever, you have the impact of discouraging the criminal networks from continuing to poach.