"They truly do understand the problem and are looking for solutions," he said.
They were really marvellous in trying to understand the problem and be collaborative".
This helps us understand the problem and, hopefully, to deal with it".
"I'm not from Newark either," he added, "but I understand the problem and dealt with it when I got here".
Research was based on this simple, rational premise: understand the problem, and its solution will become self-evident.
We now understand the problem and its ramifications".And Mr Rouge says that Congress and the White House are weighing whether to change the ITAR legislation itself.
And the researchers, who detailed their findings in the journal Sports Medicine, say they are considering an ambitious new study to better understand the problem and seek treatments for it.
American commanders say that they understand the problem, and the rate of such incidents has declined, but mistakes continue; dozens of Afghan civilians died earlier this month during a United States-led bombing raid in Farah Province.
We are not here for the moral high ground – we are here to make the research better and the numbers more accurate, so we can better understand the problem and find meaningful solutions.
"You talk to a mathematician, and he tells you that he's one in three people in the world who understand the problem and it's not been solved for 200 years," says Mr von Ahn.
With public spending stripped to the bone, and public agencies cowed and disempowered, few had the vision to understand the problem, and fewer still had the skills to make a difference.
