I just want to take us back to the special debate that was held in this Parliament when our Government committed us to joining New Zealand forces to the US-led invasion of Afghanistan. My former colleague, Green MP Keith Locke, in his speech then said, "Military action in Afghanistan will almost certainly result in the deaths of more innocent people, and cause more destruction in a country which has already been devastated by civil war and the oppressive policies of the Taliban regime." He also said that it would be "counterproductive in terms of the battle against terrorism. A military strike is likely to create more anger in the Islamic world towards the Western powers, and the United States in particular. One of the outlets for that anger will almost certainly be new forms of terrorism [aimed] at more innocents.", and, of course, that is what we saw with the Islamic State attack at Kabul airport last week. Keith also said that we are talking perhaps about a long war against the Taliban. Now, I doubt that even he would have anticipated that it would be fully 20 years, but I doubt that he would have been surprised to learn that it would end in total failure, with the Taliban as fully in control of Afghanistan at the end of the war as they were at the beginning.