Yes, it would be absolutely fair to say that we did not meet anybody who thought it would be in any way acceptable to see a return of the Taliban regime. We drove past a stadium in Kabul where hundreds of women had been lined up and shot, merely because they were women. This is still very real. They were mothers, sisters, daughters, or relatives of some kind. So that reality and those images do not leave you soon.
But perhaps even more strongly than we understand it as outsiders coming in, the Afghans themselves realize the gradations and differences inside the Taliban. This is not some monolithic group. At one end there are the serious hardliners who are responsible for, or at least involved in, acts like 9/11--those kinds of people who are fervent and dedicated on that level. But you also have people at the other end of the spectrum who are Taliban of convenience. Because they could not receive a paycheque from our system or we weren't efficient enough in delivering it through NATO or the UN, they ended up taking money from a drug lord or a Taliban leader to feed their family and for sustenance.
So there's every gradation. You have to keep your options open in being able to talk with those further down the road who have renounced the violence and the activities and have participated in the reconstruction and rebuilding of that country. But it's hard to judge that from afar. That's why we have all kinds of people on the ground--diplomatic, development, military--who can help us assess that, so when we get to those points, if we do, we're talking to the right people about the right things.