Hey look at that, we agree on something. We did the same thing in Iraq when we took actual grass roots efforts at creating democracy by the Iraqi's and invaladated them and appointed intertrim leaders. Societies were strong central goverments are culturaly acceptable (South America for example) this tactic may work, but in the middle east we have to value the nature of the society we are working with. In Social Work we call it "meeting the client were they are at".
This I am far less sure about. Still not sold that all (or even most) insurgency is directly connected to "poor" goverance.Will they cure the disease of poor governance that gives rise to insurgency? Of that I am less optimistic.
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