That has all the making of nation-building, since it will require that Afghanistan -- one of the world's least advanced economic and political entities and a mish-mash of fighting-forever tribes -- will have a legitimate and effective government, including functioning security forces.
CAR has no functioning security forces, so threats of punishment for those breaking the terms of the agreement look hollow.
The insider attacks also pose a significant challenge to the president's Afghanistan exit strategy, which calls for turning over security operations to a functioning Afghan security force that will help keep the peace in the country after the U.S. draws down most of its troops by the end of 2014.
Mr. Tenet's principal task will be to assess how a functioning Palestinian security force might be rebuilt after the recent Israeli military campaign, which left many Palestinian institutions, towns and infrastructure severely damaged and many members of the security force dead or in jail.
It is "like an interior minister," he explained to the BBC, "but the council avoids that title because we are not a government until Tripoli is liberated". Mr Darrat said the old police force, now back on the streets, was currently the only functioning official security force.
Since the 2011 revolution that ousted Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the government has barely functioned, the security forces have been in disarray and security has worsened.
Iraqi and American officials have made assurances throughout that Mr. Maliki's current government continues to function, that the security forces have a semblance of control over the violence ravaging the country.
It thus appeared possible that some of the functions of the new security force might be carried out by the same people who performed them in the Securitate.
The Guardian force in Ghazaliya, so far numbering only 160, looks and functions very much like a private security force paid by the American military, said Col. Faleh Hussein of the Sixth Division of the Iraqi Army, who was along on the visit to Ghazaliya.
In a separate investigation, Niger's anti-corruption agency found that, because funds from the military budget were stolen in the capital, bribes paid by smugglers at desert checkpoints were essential to the basic functioning of the security forces.
