I'll comment on the context. You see a lot of these historical analogies. You see commentary on the British invasions in the late 1800s. You see commentary on the Soviet invasion of 1979. There's a substantive difference here, in that right now under NATO auspices and a UN mandate, and in cooperation with the Government of Afghanistan, this is not an invading force, nor is it an occupying force. As I alluded to before, these operations are Afghan-led.
The policy action group in Kabul, which meets on a very regular basis--I think the president chairs it about once a month--and is directing the strategy in the south, is an Afghan-led operation. There are about 30 million people in that country, and the Taliban are a pretty small minority--that's even if you can call them Taliban. So the analogy isn't there. This is not the Soviet invasion of 1979.