and from this discussion i also want to thank the staff for organizing today's event. too often, we think about and approach arms sales in terms of input to the partner and output for the united states and i think we have seen in recently congressionally mandated reforms for security cooperation that are underway at the state department and that the permit of defense that encourage the whole committee to think more and drive towards outcomes. indeed, if we want to compete and win in the ways that have been framed by this administration, it hinges on our ability to articulate and achieve those outcomes. the fact is, as ambassador kaidanow stated in her remarks, arms sales are a foreign policy tool that may well reap economic and strategic benefits but are fundamentally a competitive act with political outcomes and in shaping the monopoly of the use of force within the partner country we are working with and how that force is used so as we are thinking about the outcomes we are seeking to achieve politically, you take into consideration the broader suite of consideration