These beliefs had been so much a feature of his own two terms in office that he had inspired a white, middle-class insurgency that called itself the progressive movement (with a small "p").
When Kalev Sepp discussed the field manual with students in his class on insurgency at the Naval Postgraduate School, a Special Forces captain said, "If this manual isn't written soon, you'll have it ready just in time to give one to each soldier leaving Iraq".
The middle-aged fret at the betrayal in modern India of the nonviolent and ascetic ideals of Gandhi and at the sometimes brutal conduct of the armed forces and political class in suppressing insurgencies from Punjab to Kashmir.
A high school dropout from a middle-class family, Prabhakaran ignited the insurgency by his own hand with the assassination of a governor of Jaffna in 1975, walking up to him at a Hindu temple and shooting him point-blank.
But it is significant that Mrs Clinton won the primary in the first big state to vote by 17 points.Mrs Clinton has not one but two firewalls to protect her from the Obama insurgency: working-class whites particularly older white women and Latinos.
A high school dropout from a middle-class family, Mr. Prabhakaran ignited the insurgency by assassinating a governor of Jaffna in 1975, walking up to him at a Hindu temple and shooting him point-blank.
Family feuds fuel Afghan insurgency.
"It's an issue where you see UKIP voters who were Labour voters just a few years ago in places like Rotherham or all the heartlands of the white working class are vulnerable and available to an insurgency from the right with UKIP in a way that they were vulnerable to an insurgency from the SNP.
I've heard it said that President Barack Obama's tactical game proves that he may be the best student of counter-insurgency strategy among the civilian class.
Without an effective transition to new government and the inclusion of middle-class elements of the Arab Sunni population, this class will not only continue to feed the insurgency but may hinder the creation of a new Iraq.
When the Tamil insurgency began, it was a middle-class movement, as such nationalistic movements often are at their inception.
