Thank you very much; that's extremely helpful.
I'll stay with that theme but extend it to domestic politics and the interests on the part of the Canadian voter or any voter whose country is involved in a coalition to sustain the effort—to expend continued blood and treasure, as the phrasing sometimes goes—to see a peacekeeping operation through but also to engage in the tail ends of post-conflict reconstruction and to not withdraw too early.
You'll have been part of the deliberations and the decision ultimately reached by the lead member of the coalition, the Obama administration, to withdraw the troops at the end of 2011. In the minds of some, looking backwards, that may have been too early.
How do we decide when to withdraw peacekeeping equipment and capacity, and then how do we devolve onto an emerging nascent rebuilt society that can then carry that apparatus on its own?