You'll recall that in my opening comments I said that Canadian foreign policy should be realist. I think the Prime Minister's comments with respect to Afghanistan are very realistic. They reflect the literature, they reflect President Obama's comments, and they remind us of what Mr. Taylor described, the strategy behind the intervention.
All I would say is that you cannot talk about Afghanistan without talking about the region, and that's principally Pakistan. I would refer to Secretary Gates' comments of a couple of days ago, when he said that Pakistan was the key and most volatile element to the solution, and that we have to be modest about what we are seeking to achieve, but we should be vigilant. Remember, there were more than sixty countries that signed the London Conference declaration for Afghanistan's rebuilding. We have to be quite modest in how we describe what has been accomplished, and perhaps even about what can be accomplished. No insurgency has ended without some degree of accommodation across the lines. But it is absolutely important that the accommodation in Afghanistan take place, because the Afghanistan people, on both sides, want it. We cannot impose the bridge. We have to have a security situation that allows those policy choices to be advanced within Afghanistan.