I ran across this lecture on TED. It is about 16 mins long. While I tend to lean towards a libertarian view of leave well enough alone...if you are going to invade and then try to rebuild a country this sounds pretty good. I think it is interesting to compare this approach with the events in Iraq. I put this out there to see what the group might think. Having said all that I believe Genghis probably had the process down but political correctness now prevents his methods!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvW4yugCPZoP.S. Crafty I did not see a catagory for this so started this one