i am certain that the house will join with me to pay tribute to private jonathan munst and another soldier who have both died in afghanistan. our thoughts and our prayers should be with them, and their sacrifice for this country should never be forgotten. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] . . we will publish much more information on the progress we are making. this will include updates on the security situation, on afghan security forces, on programs for supporting district government, and development work, including health and education, but our main focus will be on the security situation. in the six months of 2010, the afghan army grew, but at present, the afghan police are essentially barely able to operate. good news or bad, we want to take the country with us in the top foreign-policy priority. let me address the question. why are we in afghanistan? our forces are in afghanistan to prevent afghan territory from being used by al qaeda as a base for attack. they are not yet strong enough to look after their