Excuse me.
Mr. Wilfert, I wonder if you can imagine a situation where during the course of time, however long we have this detainee issue on the table, that there would be a responsible, reasonable period when we could be looking at the content of this motion, deal with some or all of it during that period, and then come back to the detainee question.
Sir, you have basically co-opted this committee into the inquisition relative to the question of whether or not there is a torture issue that has to be taken into consideration. With due respect, and perhaps with all the best intentions, with this motion as amended you have basically moved this from the flexibility we require as a committee to a country mile away from the original intent of the Afghan committee.
With respect, I would suggest that you might want to withdraw the latter portion of your amendment, in which case we can gather at least a small crumb of cooperation among the various members of this committee. The government members are acquiescing that we do not have the numbers on this committee, as constituted, to stop this motion, but at least we would have a small piece of common ground to move forward with this as and when we have the opportunity.