Fair enough.
You've mentioned that in South Asia and the Middle East the principal responsibility for achieving security remains regional. The UN has a role, but it has been paralyzed or blocked for various reasons over 60 or 70 years. Given that NATO is now an organization of 28 allies that has given itself the task of crisis management and of developing partnerships for security, and that NATO has partners like Afghanistan, some of the gulf states, and Turkey that are in these regions or directly adjacent to them, isn't there a role for NATO in conflict prevention, conflict resolution, and crisis management over the longer term, and shouldn't we be preparing for those scenarios in the two regions?