It's very difficult, especially in the south. They started from nothing, with very little infrastructure. We spent a lot of time, money, and effort on having an election, but the locals don't understand elections and democratic power. Being elected as an MP in Afghanistan, for example, doesn't mean anything to them.
You ask those people, “Did you vote?” They voted. It was organized for them to go and vote, but they don't understand what they did. They don't understand what an MP is. In their culture this means there's no authority to this system. It's the commander, the local strongman, who's running the joint. So the MPs themselves are hamstrung, because nobody understands what they do, and they have no independent budget. The Afghan government has no independent budget, because the international community is telling the Afghan government pretty much what to spend money on and what not to. So the parliamentary infrastructure is very light on the ground. It has no reality in rural Kandahar, none whatsoever.