IW and Stability Operations - in your own words - what is the difference?

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Now, if we can just get the politicians to pay attention...

And Stan calls ME a hopeless romantic ! Unfortunately, I doubt that any politician will think beyond their next election and, in the US, the ones who don't have to think about the next election (aka year 6+ presidents) are, for all intents and purposes, isolated from having much real effect.