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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (77450)6/22/2006 3:31:40 PM
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>>Is the Taliban still running Afghanistan? Are there still 4 million Afghan refugees sitting in Pakistan? Is Al Qaeda still training tens of thousands of men a year in Afghanistan?

No. Is your standard for US actions that either it work perfectly or it's "ineffective"? Afghanistan has a democracy, if not everywhere, and the Taliban is out of power, if not entirely in the south and their bases in Pakistani Waziristan. Afghan democracy is not up to Euro standards, but it's never going to be, given the nature of the place and the people. It's still a vast improvement from the pile of theocratic rubble it was five years ago, and people are voting with their feet to come back into the country.<<

Nadine -

I didn't say the invasion of Afghanistan was ineffective. In fact, I was using it as an example of an effective Bush move that was supported by a broad coalition of nations.

I would say that it's clear that the lack of attention to the situation in Afghanistan since late 2002 hasn't been ideal. Obviously, nobody can know what would have happen if Bush had kept his promise to the Afghani people. He told them he would not desert them this time, then didn't include one penny for them in his very next budget. Must have been distracted by something else.

BTW, as recently as the seventies, Afghanistan was quite a progressive and civilized place. So let's not use the people themselves as an excuse.

- Allen
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