Steven Hadley, George W. Bush has made two broad charges here, and let's take them one by one. The first is that the U.S. military is in decline. There's two bits of evidence. One thing, it's important to say what he's not saying. U.S. military is the best in the world, and the men and women in uniform do a terrific job.
Nobody disputes that.
The operations overseas are up by a factor of three. And in order to hold that force, you need to pay them enough, you need to give them good housing, you need to put the kind of money into it that allows people to feel comfortable with foreign missions today. And there's a long-term piece. We built this force in the 1980's. This equipment is getting old, it needs to be replaced, so we have a modernization issue, but we also need to begin to both modernize the force and transform it to the lighter, mobile force that everyone's been talking about that we need to have.