I agree. Pakistan is the elephant in the room, and it is an intractable issue. We, frankly, will not see long-term stability while we have a split policy, as the international community, regarding the way the Taliban insurgents are treated on one side of the Pashtun-speaking belt versus the Afghan side.
I believe that until we resolve that issue we are going to continue in the situation we are in right now. And it's not an easy issue to solve. The Afghan government, I believe, will need to be given more encouragement to split the Taliban. We lump all these various insurgents, from those who are just merely disgruntled to those who are religious fanatics, under one rubric--the Taliban--and that's simply not the case.
We need to be able to split them, to come to terms with some of them and isolate others. And I think that will be the solution, because we won't be able to get Pakistan to crack down the way we'd like.