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Corrupt Afghan government is as big a problem as the Taliban. So remind me again why young Canadians are dying to keep them in power. Has there ever been a 'government' in Afghanistan that wasn't a bunch of gangsters fronting up to meet the 'international community's laughably low standards for being recognised as such? Will another few hundred dead Canadians change that? Heck as like.

Date: 2009-01-18 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com
This makes me enormously sad.

Date: 2009-01-19 08:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anthrokeight.livejournal.com
Yeah.

Heard a thing on BBC World Service about how the Taliban has declared girls can't go to school in Swad province in *Pakistan.*

And so girls' schools are being closed.

I was wavering between tears and anger so intense I wanted to take a Louisville Slugger to something.

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