I'll try. It's a very comprehensive question. I'll try to start where you left off.
As I said in my opening remarks, somewhere around 75% of the country is relatively stable and secure—stable and secure enough for development to occur. Of course incidents occur: suicide bombers here and there, and some old factional elements who will come out of—I almost said the woods, but most of the place was deforested—the hills and try to create a disruption for their own purposes, generally related to some kind of criminality or other. A number of things happened over the previous four years to help create the conditions that gave us the current situation in Kandahar, in Helmand in particular, and in a couple of the places in the southeast.
In most of the country, things are happening. When you drive through the streets of Kabul, you can hardly move. Kabul was about 350,000 people when the Soviets invaded in 1979. We think there are somewhere between three and a half and four million people there now. The good news is that this has fuelled a fair degree of economic development. Of course, it has also created unemployment and congestion, disrupted traditional social structures—it's being worked.
In the other areas, in the north and the west in particular, it is very stable. You have to get the picture in your mind's eye that “stable” in Afghanistan is not downtown Ottawa. There are people out there who are bad guys; it's that simple. But development is occurring, and small enterprise is picking up, and millions of kids have gone back to school, including girls. It's pretty impressive to see. Most of the schools in Kabul, for example, run three shifts during the school year, to get all the kids through. That is very upbeat and optimistic.