We look at DIME as being the tools to define the endstate, but they might be the wrong tools.

It might be as simple as getting the Afghan people to actually believe there is a country of Afghanista and not a kluge of tribes.

This requires a feeling of nationalism which is going to be absent as long as there Taliban, AQ, HiG, and other armed elements running around the country. The idea of allegiance to a national cause has not been developed fully.

We can talk about DIME until we are blue in the face, but until the Afghan people believe in a national cause, a national government and national unity, it's a mess. We are trying to define the problem through our lens.