We've spent the $4.7 million that we have spent on this.

I don't really think it should have been formed in the first place, but what we've heard here is...

As far as how we reform development policy, I think the best thing we could do is centralize it.

We need allies. We need friends. We need partners in order to multiply, be a force multiplier basically.

Capping the number of troops in Colombia was an important part of the success because it made the Colombians aware that we would help but it was their fight.

But it certainly hasn't spun out of control. And we have had no attacks against U.S., Western targets come out of Al Shabaab and Somalia because we built that partner capacity and because we were able to successfully partner.

That partnership on our side between defense, development, and diplomacy is the building block to successfully build the partnerships with the local countries.

I think building that partner capacity and finding allies who can help us is a critical piece of it.

We cannot succeed in the current national security environment unless we build partner capacity.

I think every military commander's first instinct is to say: Give me another 30,000 troops, and I can save the situation.

Building up the level of cooperation between the State Department and the Department of Defense is very important.