i was in abu dhabi when i said that mack thornberry was -- when i heard that mack thornberry was going to give a big announcement. i got back. it was three hours ago. the most important thing for me to do is get away from the stage quickly because i will make mistakes if i try to stay here. i can't resist. i wanted to say that i was in abu dhabi this last weekend, two weeks before that, i was in tokyo at a conference. and two weeks before that, in seoul. and every place, i'm hearing the same thing. it is what the hell are you doing to yourselves. they want america to be a global leader. they see what we're doing, and they're genuinely anxious, worried about what we're doing. they say why -- why is this happening? i give them an explanation about very deep turmoil we have within our government about how do we establish priorities when our budget is so out of whack. and this is going to be with us for a while. i tell them that, i say this is going to be a longer term problem. we're going to have this problem for a while. and you can feel everybody sag that we had this -- but i said, don'