If real reconstruction is to have a chance, if the patient is to be saved, first the bleeding of young men into the arms of the Taliban must be staunched. The question is whether the political will can be generated to make cash-for-work big enough, fast enough, to stop the train wreck. Brave American soldiers like Capt. Sean Dynan are doing an outstanding job on the village level, sitting with tribal elders and asking, as Capt. Dynan did in July 2008: "We know many faces have come through here over 30 years...the question we have to answer to you is how we are different."
It is time for those who walk in to "Hail to the Chief" and bagpipe bands to show this graveyard of empires "how we are different."
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