TFTD: Dismantling state institutions in order to reconstruct them according to ideological recipes is easier said than done, as the Americans have learnt at great expense.
While there have been few modern-day examples of successful state engineering in such a manner, the idea still has currency in ideological circles, and is supported by robust rationale.
In the simplest of terms, the building blocks of any new state must be based on ideological principles consistent with that of the state, and no amount of reform could possibly achieve this.
Q: Would you envisage an instant dismantling of existing state instituions (such as the armed forces, intelligence apparatus, the media, workers unions, judiciary, societies, associations, lobby groups and political parties) and insist they be resurrected under the auspices of the embryonic caliphate?
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