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As we learned to our horror at the turn of the twentieth century in the Philippines, as well as in the 1960s in Vietnam, and again in the last decade in Iraq, to invade is to govern. Once you decide to send in ground forces in significant numbers, it becomes your job to administer the territory you've just conquered-or to identify someone immediately who can.

( Robert D. Kaplan )
[ The Return of Marco Polo's ]
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