I think that's a general confusion, because in the way that this rating system is designed...

The way that they resolve a lot of these issues--it may not be the way that we do, but it's very effective in terms of fairness and stability in their society.

But, at the same time, I wouldn't think you're in any way suggesting that the quality of the legal system and societal stability in Nigeria is superior to that of Japan.

Different governmental systems have different ways of dealing with problems.

Seems to me that the implicit assumption in this legislation, at least the way we're measuring output, is that human trafficking is best addressed by country-based programs.

Today's hearing will examine the impact of our legislation on our antitrafficking efforts in Asia.

This hearing will come to order.

I've long been an advocate of a multilateral approach, in terms of resolving these sorts of issues.

Let me ask you one final question about Singapore since we've been on it.

At this point, I would like to emphasize that this line of questioning is really designed to try to examine your methodology rather than being a comment on my view of the quality of the governmental systems in most of these places that I'm…

By the way, this whole hearing shouldn't be about Singapore.

We can take the political questions aside. You and I served during the Vietnam era. We know the difference between political questions and actual service.