I think it's the obvious point, and it's consistent with what I was saying. If you're carrying out a foreign policy that is effective, and if part of that foreign policy is of benefit to the United States, people are going to react to it. I think that's what it is. The United States, including the Obama administration especially, is talking about more and more forces going into Afghanistan. The review is on in the United States about what they're going to do, but it's already evident that they think more forces are necessary and more diplomacy is necessary and more aid is necessary. They think all of it is necessary.
They've appointed Richard Holbrooke, who was my colleague in New York and in Germany when I was there, to be a special representative. That is a sign, I think, that they're taking it very seriously. It also should be a sign to us, I think, that we should perhaps contemplate doing a similar thing. I think we should perhaps appoint our own special envoy .
Another idea we might have is the creation of an eminent persons committee: three or four or five or six really smart, experienced people who are familiar with the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Central Asia who could be a sounding board on this. The French have just appointed a special envoy. If there were a special envoy for all the major contributors, you could have a contact group of the kind we used to have in Bosnia and Kosovo, which ultimately brought about the end of that fight. I think there's a lot to be said for that.