Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I thank the witnesses.
I'll try to stick to current events.
Speaking through you, Mr. Chair, to General Natynczyk, and going back to what Mr. Bachand talked about, quoting some statistics, I think it's important that we not just quote simple statistics but understand what's behind the statistics and what the impact is—we talked about increased IED events, increased attacks, and so on—of the fact that we have four times as many allied troops on the ground in Kandahar and ten Kandaks on the ground in Kandahar, and tens of thousands of American troops in other areas of the country. How much of an impact does that have on the number of those kinds of incidents because we are simply taking it to the Taliban more?