It's dead simple. This isn't Canada's war; it's NATO's. It's the international community's effort. In everything that's done, we have to take a multinational approach. I know you're representing the Canadian public, and that we're members of the Canadian military. But when we deploy overseas, we go over as members of NATO, and we're executing the NATO plan in direct support of the Afghan government.
So it's a multinational effort, done in partnership with our Afghan counterparts. I have a responsibility as a Canadian officer to report to the Canadian public on benchmarks that we have laid out, but the entire problem is much more complex than that. I used to say that Canada has six priorities—and they're all great ones—but there are probably 30 things that need to be done, not six. Those 30 things are being done by the entire international community, and we're contributing to some of them.
We have a responsibility to answer to the Canadian people on how Canada's effort in Afghanistan is being executed. I get that 100%. That's what we're measuring against, those six benchmarks, because that's government policy. But when you consider the entire international community, the problem is much larger than that. They are moving on a whole host of other issues that we, quite frankly, don't have enough resources to be involved in. Maybe I'm being a bit convoluted, but nation-building is a pretty broad-based project. It's not narrow in focus. If you want to have an effect, you have to narrow your focus when you're a country as small as Canada.