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The decline in violence holds for families, neighborhoods, tribes, and states.
The locals are being dealt with as tribes, according to the modern colonial model.
Force has never worked with the Pashtun tribes, and there is no evidence that this has changed.
Tribes versus TerroristsISLAMABAD – Sitting next to a four-foot-tall water pipe, I asked the tribal leader in front of me: What does victory mean to you?
Facing tribal unrest and incessant fighting, the British proposed to settle the tribes from Waziristan (present-day North Waziristan and South Waziristan) in British territory.
The Secretary of State wrote to Queen Victoria, “The pacification of border tribes by preserving in the exercise of humanizing influences is more likely to be permanent than their subjection by military force….[and
The British moved some members of the tribes from the unsettled areas of the frontier to the settled (colonial) areas.
Prior to this policy, the British had spent 15 years and countless funds repressing and punishing the tribes, without result.
Moreover, Sudanese security forces continue to arm Arab tribes straddling the North-South border with the aim of destabilizing the mostly Christian South.
And the permanent damage to thousands of species – and to the indigenous Amazonian Tagaeri and Taromenane tribes, which remain isolated from the world – would be too profound to quantify.
That fortunate fusion of classical antiquity, Jewish religiosity, Christianity, and the energy of so-called barbarian tribes incited Europe’s unprecedented advance that brought humanity countless things of value and influenced the entire civilization of our age.
This is why outsiders should place greater emphasis on providing military and political support to Kurdish forces and Sunni tribes.
While the origins of the Yezidi are uncertain, cultural and genetic evidence suggests that they may be remnants of Indian tribes that migrated west in the second millennium BC.
The US has achieved relative successes in the province through alliances with Sunni tribes.
Add to this the disillusionment with the BJP of the “Scheduled Castes” and “Scheduled Tribes” (so called because they are enumerated in the Constitution) and the ruling party’s electoral weaknesses become clear.
Slowly but surely, throughout 2006 and 2007, Jordanian intelligence, working with Iraqi Sunni tribes, chipped away at al-Qaeda.
In drawing Africa's internal borders, imperialists ignored tribal differences, leaving some densely populated countries, such as Nigeria, without a dominant tribe or splitting famously cohesive tribes, such as the Ewe, between two countries (Ghana and Togo).
Tribes have their dark side, of course.
When decisions are made about who gets what aid in times of hardship, it is no surprise that ruling tribes get more than those out of power.
They have strong ties to their own peoples and it is their duty to ensure that they prosper before other tribes.
Of the tribes who lack access to power, many are poorer today than at independence, despite the billions of dollars spent in their name.
Only then can members of different tribes interact with each other in a common space--and from a position of strength and respect.
With the exception of historical countries such as Egypt or Morocco, most Arab states are artificial constructs of European colonialism, which combined disparate tribes and ethnicities into unitary states that could be held together only by authoritarian rule and a common enemy – Zionism and its Western patrons.
Today’s turmoil, however, is no longer driven by anger at foreign forces; instead, it marks a second phase of the de-colonization process: the assertion of the right of self-determination by peoples and tribes united only by a dictator’s yoke.
But its leaders have never been able to integrate the tribes, the primary units of Yemen’s social structure, into the political system in a manner that generates their unequivocal acceptance of the sovereign state.
Of course, every kind of pogrom - against castes, tribes, religions - has been seen here.
Violent polarization has developed not only between Eastern and Western tribes, but also between some of the Western tribes.
Vendetta politics is not unknown in Libya, and, in an armed society comprising more than 120 tribes – including around 30 with significant numbers and resources – it can become extremely dangerous.
They also belong to several large tribes, guaranteeing wide tribal representation if a military council were to take power, as in Egypt.
No longer would Euroskeptics be fragmented into different tribes of anti-immigrant politicians on the right and anti-austerity politicians on the left.
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