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Old 31-08-2021, 13:01   #484
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Re: US President Joe Biden

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Originally Posted by Carth View Post
. . . if that's true (and I'm not saying it isn't), then the people running the show - the Afghanistan leadership - maybe weren't the right people to be supporting after all?

Quite possibly then, we were batting for the bad guys all along
I think the choice was between corrupt politicians who pretended to believe in democracy whilst lining their pockets, and extremist militants - it was the (slightly) lesser of two evils.

We’re talking about a country with no real history of democracy, ruled by despots and warlords (yes, I mean Afghanistan).
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