We didn't get into what they should be teaching them in schools. It's so basic at this point. We met with a group that was very proud of their school having been built, but their main concern was that it was inadequate in size. There were so many children that they could only attend school in four shifts a day, so each child got two hours in school. The next problem in the education system is teachers being trained and paid. You're building, from the ground up, a system that has so far to go. That's why we need to be reasonable about what we can achieve and what we can really expect.
Quite frankly, we have been all over the map. Madame Barbot made the point that I think we made in our report, that in terms of transparency and communications, this has not been well understood by our population, and we are asking them for enormous sacrifices in terms of our young people and our treasury. If we don't tell people unequivocally what it's all about, it's no wonder they want to change the channel.
There are lots of reasons why we're there; we shouldn't think there's only one reason. We're there to educate children and women, establish security, and make it more difficult for al-Qaeda to use Afghanistan as a training ground from which to attack populations elsewhere. Trying to get a handle on the poppy cultivation that is destroying societies around the world is one of the reasons we are there. There are a lot of reasons why we are there, and they are good reasons. But the failure to have a coherent strategy that encompasses development, the political side, and the security side will potentially undermine our success in achieving any of those objectives.