— virtually happen overnight in afuhanistan? ~ ., virtually happen overnight in afuhanistan?_ afghanistan? well, afghanistan was a much smaller economy to _ afghanistan? well, afghanistan was a much smaller economy to start - afghanistan? well, afghanistan was a much smaller economy to start with. l much smaller economy to start with. we are talking about a $20 billion economy pre—taliban takeover for a0 million people. if you just look at a comparative, poland, same number of people, $a20 billion economy. so when it crashes you are taking the bottom out of a very fragile economy that had been so heavily dependent on foreign aid. so, this is something that we have all got to, as an international community, look at and see what can be done very differently, because it is a very costly operation to keep trying to port a relief operation in a place where you need to jump—start local, micro—economies. afghanistan has never been a national economy. it has always been a series of micro—economies. so, you've got to go in and say, can wejump the domestic markets, localised markets, a