I have to tell you, I was greatly perplexed by the notion of giving the Treasury the ability in perpetuity to, in essence, codify TARP.

I was really stunned by the President of Afghanistan's inability to articulate in a way that's comprehendible what our mission in this country is.

That would be very helpful. And again, I think it's not only helpful to the Department and hopefully to those of us who are appropriating money to help cause this to come to an end and be successful, but I think it actually might be…

My guess is there's not a soul in the body that could actually articulate in a full way what our mission is today in Afghanistan.

It seems that we, in many ways, are far more concerned about their energy security than they are.

My guess is that on a one-off basis, if you were to ask for that, instead of pumping additional monies into a company that really has turned out to be a honey pot for many of the institutions that have relationships with it, my guess is…

It just seems to me to be a constant stick in the eye, if you will.

I do want to say, with Senator Mitchell and yourself involved in creating a solution to this, I think we all are hopeful.

As anybody would be, I'm incredibly troubled at every level at what is happening.

But as far as working, the member countries, there's no division. There are no countries in this world who are resistant to us addressing this issue?

So stepping down from there, it seems to me then the thing that we can do to those--with those who have been affected is to have effective programs to deal with those people that have already been affected; is that correct?

So obviously, as we step down--and we know this conflict has been going on for some time, and certainly, I don't think enough has been done at any level to try to end it.