Thank you very much.
Ambassadors, welcome. It's good to hear from you, and if I may so, it's good to see all of you. I've had the opportunity of working with you and with your staffs in Kabul and in Canada, I very much appreciate your being here.
I don't want to be unfair, and I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but it seems to me that sort of the thrust of your testimony is that there was a policy decision.
Ambassador Sproule, you referred to it in the second paragraph of your statement, I think, where you talk about the fact that the building up of the capacity of the Afghan government and Afghan institutions was a pre-eminent goal, and therefore, the decision was made that the transfers would take place, and every step would be taken--and successive steps were taken--on the basis of hard experience to deal with the problems that happened as a result of the initial decision to make transfer the policy. Is that a fair summary?