It all seems so beguilingly simple, provide safe centres where the local economy can thrive providing employment and raising living standards, and keep the Taliban out. Major Khan knows that is the answer and now so do we, but does the Taliban? Strikes me that if they can infiltrate the so called secure areas and let off bombs, human or otherwise, then they can do much the same anywhere else that is supposedly "safe". Templer had many challenges and overcame them with great lateral thinking, but even he would be hard pressed to cope with a mindset that can now literally make a bomb out of a human being without any external indicators whatsoever. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that the security of these centres will have to be absolutely stringent with minimum coming and going permitted. In that alone there would seem to be a message from the Malayan emergency.