When you ask, I just seem to think there isn't the fundamental knowledge about Afghanistan in Canada that there should be. We keep putting people into little pockets, and we don't see them as a country that has been unified. It was unified under King Zahir in his early years, and it will happen again. But as long as occupied forces are in there, with all due regard...one of the real problems is the Americans on the ground. We have to get people into a position where they can make their own decisions.
When you talk about the women members of Parliament, a good number of those women members of Parliament whom I've met with on a number of occasions are there in lieu of their husbands. They're taking direction from others.