Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'm sharing my time with Mr. Chan.
Thank you all very much for being here and for your fine work.
I find it interesting that we went into Afghanistan to deal with al-Qaeda, but the real threats from a terrorism perspective are in other countries right now, and they're not being dealt with at all—but maybe that's a tale for another day.
We spend a lot of time talking about the military component in the mission, but what if I were to pose to you that the real end point for this mission is the sustainable development of the four pillars of Afghanistan's security—trained, equipped, and paid Afghan police, Afghan army, Afghan judiciary, and Afghan corrections—and that should be our end point? Maybe when we go to Bucharest our goal should be to tell our partners, let's roll up our sleeves and make sure that those four pillars are going to be having the investment and that we're going to have a coordinated, effective, sustainable approach to building those four pillars.
Lastly, perhaps you could shed some light onto what kind of concrete road map you could offer us to deal with the culture of impunity in Mr. Karzai's government, and secondly, developing the political reconciliation that has to occur within Afghanistan between the tribes, particularly between the Pashtun tribes and the non-Pashtun tribes.
Thank you.