POL 161 Lecture 10: oct 4 notes
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Corruption functions to drive insecurity because when you take peoples things you create hatred, conspiracy, resentment: if it is your government abusing you to whom do you appeal > cannot appeal through a rational-legal process. In not paying attention to who the government is working with, they failed to resolve the underlying issue: cannot rely on military action to solve the actual problem. Lack of coordination between different institutions within the united states & other international forces: not a single agency defining what happens. American government was working with the afghan government not fight the taliban to protect the afghan people, yet the afghan government was part of the corruption and harming the people. Militaries single minded approach to making change through combat & devoting entire focus to ending the. Each time they replaced an official, the replacement would be just as corrupt.
