The government we succeeded best in fixing is our own. Our interests were more pure, so our efforts less biased. The Constitution is a miracle of "government fixing"; and the Civil Rights Act an equal miracle of government fixing as well.
When we go to other's countries though, we always apply a double standard of what is good for the people, and cant all efforts at shaping government to build and sustain something that is good for the US and US interests first. We'll stand for principles of Democracy and Self-Determination all the way up to the point that it might put some interest at risk, then we start compromising.
We would sell out the people so long as we got what WE wanted from their governments. This is where we need to adjust how we do business. These people had no real power, no real way to affect us before. NOW they do. AQ is leveraging this as well for their ends.
We're already elbow deep in all of these governments. I'm just saying we need to change what we think is important and how we go about servicing those interests to be more sensitive to how it affects the people. Otherwise we will just keep running from problem to problem trying to prop it all up.
COIN is not war, it is governance working through a civil emergency for the HN.
FID is not war either, it is an action arm of foreign policy to prevent/repair problems that are threatening our interests.
Once we get the context right, the rest will fall in place.
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