Unawakening

Robert Farley notes that just as General Petraeus in Iraq is doubling down on the proposition that backing disparate local armed warlords constitutes a form of "bottom-up reconciliation," military commanders in Afghanistan are moving in the other direction and concluding that in order to build state capacity they need to be more careful about the loyalties of people they work with.

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