Darryl Shannon wrote: > > But the trouble comes *after* the > Taliban have gone. How is Afghanistan going to be governed? > The US will be somewhat limited in what it can do, since we > have to keep our Islamic allies happy and we can't risk > antagonizing the general Afghan > population. I can't see the Northern Alliance taking > over. And I can't see a Liberal Democracy being installed > either. > Maybe the right thing to do is to impose in Afghanistan a kind of "islamic democracy" like Iran - something that may please the fundamendalist but with enough individual freedom to shake fundamentalism in one or two generations.
> This is the really tough problem. I guess if we get > any sort of government that doesn't allow terrorist > camps we should be happy. > This is not enough. An unstable g*vernment will cause another partition of Afghanistan into warlords, and any of them may think that a terrorist camp is a good idea. Alberto Monteiro
