From Malinowski to Human Terrain Systems

Empires and the Sullying of Anthropology

By ROBERT LAWLESS

http://www.counterpunch.org/lawless11062009.html

"Enter a war zone with the expectation that the heavy armor will coerce the population into electing a favorable head of state; if this fails, then take refuge in your anthropologists, who will find a quick way to ‘nativize’ the war and help you clamber onto the helicopters. The country you have left behind is now more of a humanitarian disaster than when you self-righteously flew in on the wings of humanitarian interventionism."