Not taken the wrong way just confused by your characterization
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This is a logically consistent theory, but - and I really hope you won't be offended by this term - it is a socialist theory. You can make a lot of logically consistent arguments about welfare - and sending out welfare checks to poor people will reduce the violence in a community - but in reality the theories don't matter; human psychology does. In the real world, people on welfare don't start looking for jobs until the welfare is about to run out. I really think that the Sunni sheiks are smart enough to realize that as soon as there is reconciliation we're going to stop sending them US dollars.
RA,
I am afraid that that would be taking it quite a bit out of context with the situation considering we are not dealing with a position of permanent client governance here but rather a circumstance under which we must leave a country with the capability to care for itself in all manners necessary. Reality of life is that a government serves one main purpose and that is to provide basic direction for it's parts. Each of those parts have responsibilities and contribute to security and economic strength in some way. This being different from what you reference which is support and guidance for it's parts.
I'm not sure if I should bother trying to respond beyond that considering how totally your characterization of what I said was. :(
Dave has obviously been in the US too long...
I have to admit, like some other people who have posted in this thread, I had no idea what 'jenga' was. It is not played in Australia.
When I first saw the title I also wondered which insurgency the 'Jenga' had fought in and why I hadn't previously heard of them......:o
That said, Dave D, I get nothing from that slide other than a motherhood statement of the obvious - I think that without context it might be doing DK a disservice.
Cheers
Mark