Increasing prosperity and freedoms will involve dismantling a support force of loyal allies, army generals and security chiefs that is used to growing rich through corruption.
Unfortunately, Talbott has invited more of the same by encouraging the Western democracies to abandon any remaining pretence of tying their support -- notably their financial support -- to demonstrable progress toward dismantling the old communist, centrally-controlled system.
Facilitating cooperation among Federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement agencies helps foster intelligence sharing and support the execution of effective enforcement operations aimed at dismantling these organizations.