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Originally posted by sgtclub
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"
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I'm not blaming America, I'm blaming the administration for making policy decisions that make it unlikely, in my view, that Afghanistan will ever make that transition to a democracy. Holding an election does not a democracy make. We had the chance to devote more resources there, and we didn't, and as a result we don't have much influence outside Kabul. How long do you think Karzai would last if we stopped backing him?
