Actually, yes. When I've talked to them....
Remember, we're dealing with a completely different culture from urban Canada. We're dealing with something that is so radically different you actually have to be there and encounter and talk to these people. I have made great attempts to do this when I've been there, because it's so easy to sit with our guys and just see what our guys are doing. I have gone out with the Afghan security police and the Afghan National Army, and I have hung around in some of the villages and talked to people specifically about the Soviet period. I'm really interested in this as a historian. I have asked what they think about what we're doing here. They say, “This is nothing. You should have seen the Soviets when they napalmed an entire village or used chemical warfare or whatever. We can handle this, we've seen this before.”