Indeed, and they can get away with it through carefully applied intimidation, "night letters", and outright murder during visits in the night.How the Taliban take over a village is similar to how a gang takes over a neighborhood.
Are we unable to stop them simply because we often do not have a durable presence in those villages, like a beat cop should have durable presence in his assigned neighborhood? Or is it more due to a lack of a mechanism for said villagers to anonymously report when the insurgents are maneuvering through their land/homes?
Put another way, does law enforcement succeed primarily from presence or speed in response?
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