fmr, the interior minister has one of the toughest jobs in international politics and trying to reform to improve the afghan police. but all i would like to just step back for a minute because the time lines that you're talking about critically depends on what kind of political settlement is made. the presumption, or assumption, underpinnings of the questions posed in the last five minutes has been that you've got this fixed level of insurgency and a lot of international troops and some afghan troops, and that we are going to build up afghan troops and they will take over from the international troops in fighting the same kind of insurgency that we've got. the essentials development that that london conference represented is that military and civil effort are designed to sponsor a different kind of political settlement. the signal importance of the reintegration and reconciliation agenda is precisely to weaken the insurgency so that it is containable by an afghan force, rather than by an international force of the current level. so, my answer to the "how long will it take" question in