Sadly, American and british doctrine does not seem to be working either, with regards to the middle east.

Build a road, they blow it up, and we start rebuilding again.

Build a school, they blow it up, and we start,right, again.

Meanwhile in the UK we need new infrastructure, and not our old creaking infrastructure, yet we spend millions and billions trying to convince them that beer and blue jeans and dance music is all harmless......they don't want democracy or pluralism, can't accept it, and will only settle for autocrat leaders like assad, or islamic extremist leaders...leave them all to it, we should never have got involved in the first place. I'll say this for China, they knew well enough to keep out, because now it is a real mess and a powderkeg....