Thank you.
I just don't quite understand what the issue is. It seems to me that when any committee has done good work, which I think this committee obviously has, and it submitted a report that happened to go out at a time of the year where it didn't get a lot of attention, not just from media but by groups like NGOs and others who I deal with, we would want to give the work that's been done another chance.
Also, I think it's very important that the whole issue of Afghanistan is ready to go through a whole new phase as a result of the American initiative. We know that. We heard it from the foreign affairs minister. I presume we would want to, as a committee and for the sake of the people who would be looking at our deliberations, have a base of where to start.
We ended up with this report--not me, I'm sorry, but for those who did, you did a lot of work--and for people to say this is what we did and now this is the next stage we're going to go to from that, this would seem to me, as an outside observer, to be the common sense approach. I realize I'm new to this committee. There's nothing to be ashamed of in this report. I've read the whole report. I think it's a very good report, but I think for people out there who don't really know and haven't really had a chance to understand it yet, it should be resubmitted so we give them a baseline to see where we are going to go next.