i believe that general scott gration is on the right track.the agreement is to save lives, it has advanced our ability to be able to advance the peace process in darfur, and north and south. the consequences of not doing both would be disastrous. we are presented with a difficult situation. i also believe that what was happening in the over it manner of 2004/2005 is not happening today. i am not going to get caught up in the argument. and general scott gration has appropriately said we can spend our time doing that. the key is the government of khartoum moving to address the critical humanitarian concerns and advance the peace process itself. if it is, we have to rely on our exports, a very different situation confronts us. that is the key thing we have to look for in our policy. there are real measurements in what they're doing, and we advance that process and that is exactly what scott gration is doing. this time frame is critical. it will take heavy lifting by heads of state and special envoys and others to advance this. with that said, let