babble: What should be done about bad/failed states?What should be done about bad/failed states?

• Sanction them (like Iraq)
  
• Ignore them (like Zimbabwe)
  
• Invade them (like Afghanistan)
  
• Support them (like Saudi Arabia)
  
• Finance/Aid them (like Sudan)
  
• Finance the opposition (like Haiti)
  
• Fruitlessly and hopelessly negotiate with them (like North Korea)
  
• Chastise them (like Pakistan)
  
• Give the opposition moral, but not financial support (like Burma)
  
• Leave them to the devices of ineffective regional organizations (like Liberia and the AU)
  
• Fund neutral NGOs to do work for the citizens of that country (like Iran)
  
• Engage them (like China)
  
• Teach them (promoting democracy in East Asia)
  
• Cajole them (tying aid to good governance in Africa as a spur to political improvement)
  
• Profit from them (letting Nigeria fester so long as it continues to export oil)