One of the things I found interesting and surprising was that in Kandahar, in the PRT that we visited most recently, the team did consist of the component parts I mentioned. I think most people weren't aware of that. I certainly wasn't, as a member of Parliament. The team, as was illustrated to me, was the State Department, USAID, and police mentoring teams.
The other part I found interesting, and you've touched on it, is that the funding for a lot of the police training is actually from the Operation Enduring Freedom, to the tune of $8 billion that the Americans are providing for training.
My point in illustrating this is just to lay it out for people, that this is how things are working on the ground. I understood OEF as a separate parallel mission, but I see integration in terms of the training, at least with police.
Do you have any concerns about that? Because some of us do, simply because we believed that the ISAF was doing its job, and that OEF--I have problems with it, but we'll agree to disagree on that--was separate. What I'm seeing, certainly in the organizational charts and the funding, is that there actually is integration of those two.
Does that concern you at all?
