I suspect that most places where it doesn't work, it's been undermined, frequently by the US - in the 50s and 60s the Middle East was westernizing and secularizing but we decided to start installing fundamentalist strongmen who would do business with us instead, if we had left them alone then it would be a completely different place now
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