In Marja, in Kandahar, in the east, everywhere, the Taliban do what we can't and roll out their own (shadow) governments-in-a-box, ready to solve disputes, administer rough justice, collect taxes, and enforce "virtue".
Moreover, the EU's enforced virtue of 2009 has not been thought through.
All this enforced virtue is occasionally off-putting, and might be more so if the chefs weren't so good at what they do.
Hence the three-possibly-four-way split looming: votes for and against (Charles Kennedy and Ming Campbell), abstentions, and a vote to postpone the vote, with Clegg making an enforced virtue of self-parodic diversity.
At issue (and one gathers this as much from Wallace's notes, appended to the text, as from the narrative itself) is an intra-service fight over increasing automation, and the question of whether the IRS should be an organisation in which morally competent human beings enforce civic virtue, or just a money-making business in which machines process paperwork for maximum revenue.
That was to be achieved by destroying the old regime, suppressing all enemies of the revolutionary government, and inculcating and enforcing civic virtue.
"Now, almost 60 years after the horror, there has been a return, especially in popular culture, to military romanticism, which, if not implying that war is really good for you, does suggest that it contains desirable elements -- pride, companionship, and the consciousness of virtue enforced by deadly weapons.
To enforce the cultivation of religion and the practice of virtue should be a principal object with all who undertake to inform the public mind".
He rose through the ranks of the Pakistan Taliban and in 2008, headed its vice and virtue department, enforcing strict edicts based on a narrow interpretation of Islamic texts.
"And there are those, like myself, who see the virtue of enforcing quality of life laws but can't help but feel bad putting a guy in handcuffs for smoking pot," Detective Miller wrote.
For other Afghans, the Taliban Ministry for the Prevention of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue strictly enforces a rule making the shaving of beards an imprisonable offence.Of mixed ethnic origin, Turkmen, Uzbek and Pashtun, these families make a colourful spectacle in the camps round the city.
