Thank you.
And thank you, General Hillier, for being here. For the record, I want to publicly thank you for your service to our men and women in uniform—you did a superb job—and also for our country. So I thank you.
And to reiterate, I add our thanks to our men and women in uniform for the service they are committing to our country and committing with excellence.
I want to pose a couple of things to you, General.
A Pentagon report recently indicated that in May the Americans lost more people in Afghanistan than they did in Iraq. I want to juxtapose that with what happened with the Sarposa prison break. If we're winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan civilian population, then presumably we would to have the intelligence that would enable us to prevent such a thing from recurring.
Can you tell us whether we're winning the hearts and minds in that area? And if we are, how could such a break have happened, if we are being successful? If we're not being successful at winning the hearts and minds of the people in the area, what do we need to do to be able to accomplish that objective?