Thank you.
This is a question that I'm just posing to the panel. I've alluded to the British parliamentarians coming here and talking about Afghanistan and their contribution, and all of that. One of the questions I asked them was if there was any political party in the British Parliament that is asking for an immediate withdrawal of British troops, and they said no, not a single one. Yet here we have, of course, one party alluding to that factor, and there's a difference of opinion over whether we should leave now and then do all of the other things.
My question is what impact that statement would have back in Afghanistan, not here, among the people in Afghanistan. But in our debate here, we have this issue of immediate withdrawal. Now, would that have a negative impact on security, would it have a negative impact on reaching the political settlement we're all talking about as quite necessary over there, because then they would say, well, why? It seems to me that out of all the other countries, no other party has asked for this.
I know this is a politically sensitive issue, but I think it's best that it be addressed. We just can't put it under a rock. Let's just go ahead on this.