"It is very disappointing for the traders and for local residents that this awful thing's happened and it's taking so long for the report to come out, " he said.
And so it's hardly worth complaining that the cafe chairs make an awful screech when dragged on those concrete floors, and that there's still a line to the ladies room at intermission when the audiences of two of the three theaters come out to stretch.
So I think it means that for the long term, there's an awful lot of work to raise Afghanistan up to a decent standard of living and a decent way of life.
But it is more likely that future historians will note that, for all its shortcomings, it unearthed a sizeable chunk of truth about the country's awful past, and did so on a budget barely large enough to buy every South African a Coke.