mr. plotso. >> i'd like to thank our distinguished guests. does the general have a scuba bubble above his gold jump wings, we just can't see it because he ran out of uniform for all of his prestigious ribbons and medals you're kind to ask, but i tried to stay above the water. >> common air breather. perfect understand. >> we're talking about afghanistan but then the subject of china comes up. we go to the pacific region and of course you expect to hear china and every area you go to, the subject of china comes up. this morning i was talking about the arctic and china came up, how they're building ice breakers to begin i guess going out there to try to lay claims in the arctic ocean or wherever for the, for resources because we know they're definitely a resource-driven country. it's something that this committee i guess will hear a lot of. i'm glad you're here today. i've been hearing some questions and i guess it's related to a lot of the incidents that have been taking place in afghanistan by some of our american service members swunt koran