mr. fabricant. our final witness is mr. richard kingham, concentrating on product liability, representing many major pharmaceutical manufacturers. is a graduate of george washington university, law degree from the university of virginia. thank you very much for coming in, mr. kingham. before george. -- the floor is yours. >> manufacturers of legitimate dietary supplement share the concern that you have for the distribution of body building products that contain anabolic steroids birdie at first that banks are well known and they should not be available for general use. it is important recognize that the vast majority of dietary supplements are in no way implicated by the matters being discussed at this hearing 31 to 150 million americans regularly use legitimate dietary supplements, and those products offer significant health benefits to those who use them. and this is the main focus of my presentation -- there is no need to amend existing legislation to deal with anabolic steroids. that the administration -- the agencies c

mr. fabricant. our final witness is mr. richard kingham, concentrating on product liability, representing many major pharmaceutical manufacturers. is a graduate of george washington university, law degree from the university of virginia. thank you very much for coming in, mr. kingham. before george. -- the floor is yours. >> manufacturers of legitimate dietary supplement share the concern that you have for the distribution of body building products that contain anabolic steroids birdie at first that banks are well known and they should not be available for general use. it is important recognize that the vast majority of dietary supplements are in no way implicated by the matters being discussed at this hearing 31 to 150 million americans regularly use legitimate dietary supplements, and those products offer significant health benefits to those who use them. and this is the main focus of my presentation -- there is no need to amend existing legislation to deal with anabolic steroids. that the administration -- the agencies c

strong neighborhood fabric that is part local security and part just governance, neighborhood watch, and trust for each other. >> thank the gentleman. the gentleman from florida, mrmiller. >> thank you, mr. chairman. general mcchrystal, welcome, sir. in your opening statement, you made a comment about defeating al qaeda, and then in the same line you said you must disrupt and degrade the taliban's capacity. could you explain for us the difference between defeating al qaeda and degrading the taliban? >> certainly. i believe that it's u.s. policy, and i believe it's an important objective that the taliban be defeated. and that means over time, wherever they are around the world, they must be prevented from being a threat against either the united states or our allies. i think that will take many years and it won't be just an american effort, it will be all of our partners. but where they are, i believe al qaeda both as an organization and as an ideology needs to be defeated. and that will require a lot of muslim nation partners as well. in terms of taliban, what i think we need to do there, sir, is -- and we had an extensive discussion about the term defeat. i thin