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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I have seen serious questioning of the 7.5 million number, given that the central government and the UN can't operate in many of the provinces. As I understand it, they've delayed the parliamentary elections, which will have real choices, and are going forward with the presidential election, in which Karzai is really the only person running. This doesn't sound much like a democracy. It sounds like elections designed to give legitimacy to a U.S. installed strongman, except that he's not so strong. They used to hold elections in the USSR, you know.
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If I didn't know better I would think you were part of the blame America first crowd. Why are you always so willing to look at the glass half empty? Yes, I understand the need to be critical, and the press (even when they are wrong) does serve this need. But why don't you view this positively? 2 years ago it was a totalitarian state. Now it is moving toward a democracy with 7.5 million (or whatever number) voting for a president in October and for parliment February. When viewed like that I'm not sure how you can view this as not positive.
Has the administration made mistakes? Yes. Could they have acheived more? Maybe. But that doesn't change the positive nature of the developments.
[edited to change "even" to "if"
