actually cause him to do these cheaper higher cost benefit operations like they did in paris. >> colonel sheaffer, take that question. >> they're going to do it no matter what. if they push them back or not, they're already expeditionary. that's something secretary carter said today. we have to take this from a multiregional perspective. this is going to attempt to work what they're calling strategic effects. we don't have a long-term political plan that these need to be tied into. and with all due respect to the congress, congress has not done its job to debate and come to terms with what authorization a president has to conduct these operations. and more importantly, what that plan is going to be. i know from experience, this task force is going to be focused just like the task force i focused on. it's the same basic objectives. it can be very effective.