Posted on 09/19/2003 12:45:49 AM PDT by kattracks
WASHINGTON -- For more than a year, the Democratic mantra on Afghanistan was that President Bush was not doing enough -- not spending enough money, not building the army fast enough, not deploying troops to tame the warlords. The charge was neglect and aversion to nation-building. The result? Afghanistan is ``falling back into chaos,'' said Al Gore last November.
One could reasonably argue that slowly building up the Kabul government while maintaining a kind of warlord equilibrium is the best that we can hope for right now. Anything more ambitious -- attempting to revolutionize a pre-industrial economy, radically extend democracy or take down the warlords -- would be bound to fail.
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Democrats and Nation Building
Those two words should never be used together in one sentence. They are destroying this nation. How can they be trusted to build a nation anywhere?
You forgot one major idea, government supplies everything
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