second, asver the course of this campaign and, in fact, over the course of this surge as we are seen improved gains that occurred for women including education. when i was in command south a couple weeks ago, just one relatively, in a sense small, but incredibly important fact. that is 40,000 women are education that we were not just a few years ago in that, in kandahar. and -- and third, i would say that while our fundamental national interests is to prevent re-emergence of safe al qaeda and to prevent the taliban from coming back and displacing the afghanistan government, over the -- over the long-term and indeed in the intervening period, part of the basis of our relationship with the afghan government will include how it treats its citizens, and so this will remain a continuing conversation. >> and do you express a bright line in your conversations around some of these issues so that it becomes very clear? >> gentlemen -- gent's lady's time expired. take that one later. >> over the past several years i focused my attention on the afghan narcotics trade as a major source of fundin