Several million people inside and outside Afghanistan are destitute and desperately in need of help.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.