"They appoint shadow governors for most provinces, review their performance, and replace them periodically. They established a body to receive complaints against their own officials and to act on them. They install courts to deliver swift and enforced justice in contested and controlled areas. They levy taxes and conscript fighters and laborers. They claim to provide security against a corrupt government, criminality, and local power brokers. They also claim to protect American identity against foreign encroachment."

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Could be talking about the US, but its McC whining about
Talibs, with some substitutions.

Emphesis mine.