ms. lockhart. do you want to share your perception then? your body language got you in trouble here. [laughter] >> i think twofold. i would agree that there is absolutely a waning enthusiasm amongst public opinion in europe. i think that's partly because there has yet to be a credible articulation of exactly what the strategy is going to be and particularly the failures in hell monday is affecting the public debate because there was not a credible articulation of a governmental strategy. that remaines open, and i do peeve the public -- believe the public opinion could be reconvinced if that strategy is to be articulated because -- >> your strategy, your strategy involves a pretty significant commitment of resources, investment personnel, civilians, i mean, it really is a nation-building strategy. >> it is, and i believe that there will be more appetite in europe and other countries for engagement on training as general craddock articulated and on the civilian surge elements particularly in areas li

ms. lockhart, would you like to comment about that?t karzai has majority support among the population of aftghanistaafghan? >> if the european union announced today they suspected that votes were invalid, then it will be demonstrated that the incumbent doesn't have majority support, and i agree with dr. hussein any that there's considerable anxiety amongst the population. what we're seeing on the moment in the ground is the electoral complaints commission investigating the irregularity, a process that may take several weeks. i very much agree that that process should be resolved as quickly as possible because the vacuum in leadership will be problematic on the ground. i think there are four options very quickly from here on. one is to accept the victory of the incumbent. the risk of this approach is that the alliances with illegitimate forces that have been made i don't think will assure good enough governance over the coming months and years and may see a further deterioration in v governance. a second approach is to accept that and t

ms. lockhart has laid out are components of the counterinsurgency. ms. i think you did -- basically you're talking about in some degree state building or nation building i think we all know those are the metrics that have been laid out. we have this very poor country that's been very poor for a long time. there are no resources like there are in iraq. we eke talking about building a health id case, water system, education system, security system, a police system. what are your thoughts about how we should view our long-term financial commitments. let's face it, on the budget we have now, they couldn't pay for a fraction of the just the police they have there. i'm wondering if you might help us there. i'm not sure if we see any future for resource toss do that there for the midterm. >> certainly as i think we discussed, the civilian governance effort is beingunder resourced and an increase in sources is certainly going to be necessary. i think we probably need to look at two different scenarios for resourcing. one scenario is, if there is a process for re

ms. lockhart, would you like to comment on that and do you believe president karzai has majority supportthe population of afghanistan? >> i think that it's the european union and they suspect the votes were invalid, then it will be demonstrated the incumbent doesn't have majority support, and i would agree with dr. hosseini that there is considerable anxiety amongst the population and lack of trust in the government over the last few years. what we are seeing at the moment on the ground as the complaints commission investigating the irregularities that it may take several weeks and i very much agree that this resolved as quickly as possible because the vacuum in the leadership will be problematic on the ground. i think there are four options, very quickly from here on. the victory of the incumbent. the risk of this approach is the alliance is with a legitimate force is made i don't think would assure a good enough governance over the coming months and years and they may see further deterioration in the governance. a second approach is to accept that and have a robust counter insurgency e

ms. lockhart has laid out are components of the counterinsurgency. ms. lockhart, i think you did -- basically you're talking about in some degree state building or nation building i think we all know those are the metrics that have been laid out. we have this very poor country that's been very poor for a long time. there are no resources like there are in iraq. we eke talking about building a health id case, water system, education system, security system, a police system. what are your thoughts about how we should view our long-term financial commitments. let's face it, on the budget we have now, they couldn't pay for a fraction of the just the police they have there. i'm wondering if you might help us there. i'm not sure if we see any future for resource toss do that there for the midterm. >> certainly as i think we discussed, the civilian governance effort is beingunder resourced and an increase in sources is certainly going to be necessary. i think we probably need to look at two different scenarios for resourcing. one scenario is, if there is a proce