Yes. People have a perception that there aren't structures functioning, but there are. There are a few areas that I can point to. We had a weekly security meeting that would occur that the governor would chair, and the heads of the 205 Corps, the provincial police, the border police, and the NDS were all expected to be present, as well as me and General Thompson, for an integrated conversation about security threats and security concerns.
There was a similar meeting that would take place on development matters every two weeks with all of the relevant Afghan line ministries that were present within Kandahar, as well as the UN and the NGOs.
There was one committee that I saw improve over time, which was the Provincial Disaster Management Committee. That was, again, a committee that brought together the relevant Afghan line ministries, as well as district leaders, who had concerns that would arise, obviously, in terms of contingency planning, whether that was for floods or for droughts, or as a result of situations of conflict that would arise, as we saw in the Arghandab last summer.
So there are structures that exist that bring the Afghans together. It's still a work in progress. They certainly recognize the need for cooperation. Voter registration was another example where all of the relevant security components had to work together in order to have a successful voter registration exercise. It is something that they know needs to be done, but the challenge that we tend to run into is the capacity deficit. It's that they're not deep within the various line ministries. You'll have a director at the top, and then maybe one or two officials, but as you go further down into the bureaucracy you don't necessarily have the depth to be able to have that integration at the working level everywhere that you would need to have.