Yes. If the existing forces are to be augmented by an increase in American forces, which apparently the administration of the U.S. is considering right now, existing forces will be able to provide the necessary security.
In terms of legitimacy, I think I've reflected on that. When you look at percentage turnout and the extreme challenge to an individual even going to vote—if you question the election based on the turnout, then you have to question many elections in the western world. So the turnout, though we wanted to see higher, when you weigh that all in...I don't question the legitimacy.
On the process itself, what we saw with the Electoral Complaints Commission and the Independent Election Commission, both of which were run by Afghanistan...the very fact that you would have a complaints commission take all those complaints...there were something like 23,906 polling stations. They did a survey. They decided that at 210 of those polling stations, the fraud was so significant from all quarters that in fact they weren't even going to count the ballots. Even before voting started, the Electoral Complaints Commission was taking action on complaints relative to certain candidates, who then dropped out because of the complaints that came forward. The fact that over 19,000 of those polling stations' votes are being accepted, something like 5.5 million votes are being accepted as legitimate.... I don't question the legitimacy of that. There is the fact that President Karzai has accepted. He got within a whisper of that 50%, and every indication we have today is that he has accepted that. As far as we know anyway, the second round will go between him and Mr. Abdullah Abdullah. I don't question the legitimacy.
I certainly hope the people themselves are going to vote. We encourage them. We hope they are not unnerved by the threats to their lives and their families and their livelihood. And we wish them well in their pursuit.