In this Wednesday, April 28, 2010 photo, U.S. Army Capt. Casey Thoreen, second from left, of Seattle, Wash., Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 5th Stryker Brigade, talks with village leaders before the start of a shura , in the Maiwand district of Afghanistan's Kandahar province. To the locals, he is the "King of Maiwand" district testimony to the fact that without the resources the young captain and others like him provide, local government in much of insurgency-ravaged southern Afghanistan could not function at all. On the one hand, he is clearly harmonizing with the local culture. That is a predictor of success! On the other hand, there is some precedent for this kind of thing turning out badly. But what choice have you got? Lay on, warrior.
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