Quote Originally Posted by gh_uk View Post
, but you can't, apparently, create that environment without reconstruction.
I can't see that line of reasoning. "Security" is not dependant on infrastructure. You may have to address basic needs, - food, water, power - but education and the banking system are not priorities if people are dying.

Now Northern Ireland, Malaya, Yemen, Kenya and Cyprus all had functioning civil services (best in the world!- Colonial British) so we never needed to do this before, but we may need to do it in the future. The idea that we can't send civilians to dangerous places is just rubbish. Pay them well, and give them clear and achievable goals.