Raoul, I'm just trying to understand Kerry's statement. The people that occupy Afghanistan's North are all land lords, most probably got to be 'war lords'/Northern Alliance when together fought the Russians and later the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Who better to have an alliance with than with the people of said country? Another successful example are the Kurds in Northern Iraq. The Kurds were THE ONLY democracy in the muslim/Arab world before Afghanistan. The Kurds were and are a great asset/alliance in Iraq.

I see no "oursourcing" in either one of those two cases... quite the opposite and who better to have as an ally than with the people that actually occupy a country.