Stability

Italians, journalist Beppe Severgnini told me, "were afraid of their own bravery." They were also afraid of chaos, and in a country that has had, on average, a different government every year for the past six decades, Berlusconi, a familiar figure for many years, has come to represent a kind of stability.

La Dolce Berlusconi
By Anne Applebaum
www.washingtonpost.com

So funny, this is exactly what was often said to explain why the talebans were so successful in Afghanistan: they gave people some stability after so many years of war…