Zitat aus einem interessanten NYT-Artikel über den „Surge“ in Afghanistan:
What is now causing unrest in Jalrez is an assortment of low-level criminals, Americans and Afghans said, men who may be thought of as Taliban, but whose main pursuit is money, not infidels. (The main target in Jalrez is a man whose last big crime was stealing solar panels.) That gives the Americans hope that if they bring money and jobs fast enough here and to the rest country, they could substantially weaken the insurgency.
“I learned everything I know about the Jalrez insurgency from ‘The Sopranos,’ ” Colonel Gallahue said. “At the foot soldier level, it’s economically driven.”
Ich wusste immer schon, dass meine Lieblingsserie den Schlüssel zur Weisheit enthält: