Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to first thank both the witnesses for being here.
Father Mallon, you spoke historically about why everything is in turmoil in that region, starting all the way back at the Sykes-Picot Agreement, and you confessed in the end that you weren't sure where it was going.
Obviously, we are intervening in that area and that means we have to have a plan. Where would you like to see it go so that somehow at the end of all of this we can have not just a few more years of quiet and then have it start up again in some other way but rather that something long term actually happens? I'd be interested in your thoughts.