The Myth of the Surge: "Money at the expense of central authority"

Let me see now: "Money at the expense of central authority" ... that can't be good! Can it?

Nir Rosen in Rolling Stone, here

"....The American forces responsible for overseeing "volunteer" militias like Osama's have no illusions about their loyalty. "The only reason anything works or anybody deals with us is because we give them money," says a young Army intelligence

"We are essentially supporting a quasi-feudal devolution of authority to armed enclaves, which exist at the expense of central government authority," says Chas Freeman, who served as ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the first President Bush officer...."