the 2014 aspiration professor sharani? >> i think if it could be achieved, it would be a blessing for the people of afghanistan. but unfortunately president karzai in the last nine years has consistently lost the confidence of the people of afghanistan. he has the international support, but he has been losing the support of the people of afghanistan. he has failed in his leadership particularly amongst his own pashtun tribesmen in the south. he was hoping that people would back him. but unfortunately given the corrupt nature of the government he has been running, the people in afghanistan are not very confident that he could be able to achieve either the goal for 2014 or even for many years into the future if that was the case. the leadership deficit in afghanistan is a very serious one. from the perspective of the people of afghanistan. >> lehrer: you think the key to it is just corruption? just simple corruption? or is it more complex than that? >> it is more than that. it's also the system of governance. i think preside