That's going to be a difficult short response.
I would suggest to you that the shortest answer I can offer, because we have done follow-on work, is that I think everyone concerned with the mission was optimistic in 2006 and 2007. In 2008 we saw an enemy response to the way in which Canada, NATO, and the United Nations were delivering effects and operations in Kandahar. In particular, the nature of providing reconstruction assistance across a broad swath of Kandahar without securing the areas that were being reconstructed meant that the opposing force murdered the people whom we had assisted.
The Canadian Forces then became embroiled in a campaign to try to protect the wide array of people across southern Afghanistan whom the Canadian government had engaged in reconstruction tasks with. The rest is history. We're all familiar with the series of small battles that raged across the province. I don't think anybody anticipated that. It certainly was news that was greeted with a very heavy heart, as I lost friends in that timeframe.
I would suggest to you again that we were—I've said enough.