The answer, Chair, is simple. That's what they are doing right now. They are empowering the people, and that's what we've been forgetting since the beginning. People are saying we are fighting a war, and I still think we are there for the Afghan people. So we have to work with them, and they are the ones who, when they are empowered, will make this country safe. That's why I've been making a comparison with Haiti, because in the five missions that I've seen in Haiti, the people were always forgotten. And that's exactly what's taking place here—we are forgetting the people.
Right now there's a project. The military are building a road, a hard road, and instead of using all kinds of machinery they are hiring the people with shovels and wheelbarrows to build the road. It will take probably six months to build, but then this road will belong to the people. They sat with the people and they asked them: “Where should we build the road? How should we do it?”
So that's what I'm saying. By sitting down with those small communities, because the Pashtun is not homogenous.... As a matter of fact, we'll find there are many types of tribes within the Pashtun. Each village has its own tribal leader. So we have to sit downwith them, we have to empower them, and empowering them and providing order, that's what I've said since the beginning. We have to provide order.