I saw progress in some areas. I saw declines in others. It also depends on the time of year. Certainly the height of the fighting season is not the time when you want to necessarily be pursuing some of your larger-scale initiatives. That's the time of year when you should really be planning and lining things up.
In Kandahar City, we made a lot of progress in the year that I was there, if you also count the suburbs of it, and even in Zhari and Panjwai, which are very difficult, as this committee knows. In Panjwai proper and Bazar-e Panjwai, we saw that small city blossom. In the time I was there we went from having pretty much nobody living and working there to having about 200 little shops. So it very much depended. And then we were able to bring partners in. But it's an ongoing dialogue that you have to have with people and a very transparent conversation about security risks.