PX to have 'security' component even if that means sniffer dogs, magnetic gates and check points.
No children allowed, adult only admission to purchase goods. Provide a donkey parking lot where they are security checked as well. Manure detail can take the product for sale as fertilizer with electronic transaction. The electronic 'stations' where merchants carry out transactions cannot be portable.
Transaction records can be stored online without paper receipts. No cash can be entered into the system except those provided through the USA military. No cash can be withdrawn. Any currency can be deposited into the system at secure military instillation. All currency, foreign or otherwise to be deposited into USA military account outside of country and paper and coin currency removed from the country.
With a minimum of sustained deposit, the Afghans can open their own 'Wall Street' to invest in their country. They can begin to place value on the way national improvements make them money. They are required to illustrate through online record that they and their families are eating, clothed and being kept warm if they choose to invest.
Make the transactions all in USA dollar exchanges for the sake of ease and stability of deposit. Even 'micro-loans' can be obtained and managed through this process.
More than picture ID, thumb print and/or retinal scan. They are used to thinking about 'purple fingers,' well thumb print on all transactions are the same thing.
They can even register votes on the same system in any election. I would consider 'secure stations' a better idea than running vulnerable land lines.
...The approach helped turn the tide of insurgency in Iraq. But in Marja, where the Taliban seem to know everything — and most of the time it is impossible to even tell who they are — they have already found ways to thwart the strategy in many places, including killing or beating some who take the Marines’ money, or pocketing it themselves.
Just a few weeks since the start of the operation here, the Taliban have “reseized control and the momentum in a lot of ways” in northern Marja, Maj. James Coffman, civil affairs leader for the Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, said in an interview in late March. “We have to change tactics to get the locals back on our side....
