To put checks and balances on Patronage so that one clan cannot legally dominate another is not "changing how Afghans govern" any more than imposing speed limits is "changing how Americans drive." All it is doing is creating structures to ensure that one element of the populace does not exceed their rights to the detriment of others.
This is a natural evolution of their current system, allowing it, and their society to move on to a new level, less tied to a disruptive and destructive cycle of wide swings of who has power and who does not, and the associated legal disputes over land ownership and acts of fiscal and physical vengeance that accompany the same.
It is the current government, that we helped shape and create, that is a change of how Afghans govern, converting a historic system of patronage into a national Ponzi scheme.
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