Reply #7: He's so right. [View All]

[Waiting For Everyman]

Build basic infrastructure and help defend it as necessary until the locals can, and they won't want to have it destroyed by some fanatics with an axe to grind.

Besides, it's the right thing to do as long as they are occupied anyway. Do them as much good as possible, for pete's sakes. That's what "foreign policy" ought to be in the first place.

(Only, no "seedless agriculture" or any of that corporate nonsense.)