It was very clear to me that something was fundamentally wrong with the way that contracts for infrastructure reconstruction, wartime support, and security programs were being put into place in Iraq and Afghanistan after September 11, 2001.
Webb expresses concerns about contracting processes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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I believe that the indisputable starting point in this discussion really is that the international rules of the road for security and also for commercial exploration have never been more complex.
Right. So they could be separated out if an Executive decision were made on these other areas you're talking about.
I'm never going to be Cal Ripken anyway in terms of consecutive votes, so I guess if I'm going to miss one this is a good reason to be missing it.
My impression was this is not the situation you would have in many of these other historic evolutions, where you have the desire of the people on top simply to perpetuate a system of the past.
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