[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 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. > > Wonder if we could make them a US Protectorate. > That would upset a few people. > Saudi Arabia _is_ a USA Protectorate. Is it a good thing for their people? Probably not, because it produced Bin Laden. Iran was a USA Protectorate, and turned into the first Fundamentalist Islamic Republic, 22 years ago.
> Seriously tho, wasn't this the original problem with > Iraq 9 years ago? If Hussain was removed, the > alternatives would have been even less desirable. > However, Hussein should have been removed, no matter the consequences - Evil can�t be forgiven. Slobodan should have been removed after the Bosnia war; it would have prevented the Kosovo war. OTOH, what has happened in Kosovo? I guess it�s now a no-man�s land, and the Kosovo majority may be happily slaughtering what remained of the Serbian minority. > Afghanistan has a legitimate government. > "legitimate" as far as it was the penultimate winner of the civil war. > It was forced out by the Taliban > fundamentalists. Would they be able to maintain > control if reinstated? > Probably not. Alberto Monteiro
