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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (9336)	11/20/2009 1:54:24 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15994

Youth is not devoted to the traditions of their ancestors. That cuts both ways. Part of how the Taliban gained power was the weakening of the traditional local tribal power structures (and partially it was by co-opting them when they would go along, but that should have its own post), by the seemingly endless violence (since the 70s). To the extent that the youth leave the conservative fairly inflexible traditional local ways, it gives more of a chance for the country to modernize, but also more of a chance for violent radicals, and terrorists to recruit.