" Economically driven incidents of violence have, unfortunately, become extremely common across the south and east of Afghanistan, while even in the relatively quiet north a provincial governor half-jokingly told the German commander in his area, “The Pashtuns in the south shoot at you, and you give them money. Here we support you, and we get nothing. Who do we have to shoot to get some aid around here?”12 This pattern isn’t unique to Afghanistan. "

― David Kilcullen , Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla