Western political mistake (as with the middle east) is to expect to export western socialisation and democracy to foreign populations who don't want it, as there is a failure to understand that these countries do not think or act 'like us' in the west - different mentality and culture and sense of what they're all about, so inevitably foreign aid and foreign intervention is either bound to arrive stillborn, or to have a violent and bloody birth, followed by a brutal childhood which may or may not end up with a semblance of what we intended to impart from the first.
In short; you cannot expect a corrupt and backward people (by first world standards) to welcome your good intentions with open armed gratitude. It doesn't seem to matter much that some of our actions might have the best of intentions. Just like our western civilisation hundreds of years ago, they want to do it their own way and don't take kindly to having their business (as corrupt or as decent by their standards as it may be) being interfered with. You can hardly fail to understand that, yet so many of our leaders cannot grasp it.
Doesn't mean there's not a solution, or that we should give up, but none of these changes will come to fruition in our lifetimes.
