And clearly, there are a series of things that are involved in what the vice president has called forward engagement and American leadership around the world, in which your military capability is an essential tool. We have contingencies all the way from what we do right now in the Balkans, which is a peace stabilization operation. I would argue very strongly we play an important leadership role in the Balkans. We have an important deterrence and containment of Saddam Hussein in the Gulf, where this administration has 20,000 to 25,000 people deployed in the theater, that weren't there in 1990, before we went into Desert Storm, and are now there and fully capable, all the way to the restoration of democracy in Haiti, which was a successful operation carried out with the use of the military and with the use of foreign assistance and diplomacy. We got those troops in there safely because of the diplomacy worked, so there's a series of contingencies that go all the way from major combat contingencies right across to the American leadership role, in such areas as putting 200 people in to help with the logistics and communications in East Timor, where the Australians take the lead in a coalition, but we provide some of the spine that helps them to operate.
American leadership is a global responsibility.
The military is clearly one of the tools that we will bring to our arsenal of handling that responsibility. I know you were trying to get in here earlier. I'm talking about what the grunts go through. Our armed forces are nothing other than a big fire department. When a fire occurs, and we never know when a fire occurs, that fire department has got to be ready to get there and put out the fire.