Worth noting perhaps, that functioning governments are generally not established. They have to evolve, and they evolve in parallel with the evolution of the nation and the society that they govern. Insurgency is sometimes part of that evolutionary process.
If a "nation" is really not a nation at all, if a society is fractured along ethnic, religious, tribal, or other lines, if its economy remains feudal, if the society is trying to resolve its respect for tradition with its desire for modernity, all of these conflicts will be reflected in government. It is not possible to simply establish a good government and expect it to resolve these conflicts: government is not going to be more coherent and more directed than the society it governs.
As we've seen, any attempt by an outside power to resolve internal conflict by simply establishing good government is doomed to failure. We cannot build a nation. We can try to cultivate a nation, by helping where we can with the evolutionary process and trying to mitigate the adverse impacts of the disorder that comes along with evolution, but there is no way we can simply go in and fix it.
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