I want to thank our witnesses for being with us this morning. I think it's been very helpful for us.
I'd like to address a couple of things. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time on each of these rounds.
All of you have...and we heard from other witnesses earlier who basically have said that this is a problem which as outsiders we can't solve. We heard that this morning, that we're not likely to be the primary agents of change. We had witnesses here the other day who said that, really, we shouldn't be expecting that democracy can work in the Arab world as it stands today.
I wonder if we can get a response to that statement. Is it possible to have democratic structures functioning well in the Arab world in the times we live in?
I think Ms. Abdo talked about how there are some principles that are very different from what we have in North America. I'm interested in how you see those coming into play in terms of governance structures.