Posted by Declan on October 13, 2006, at 2:35:37
In reply to Re: It is heartwarming (or not)** tealady, posted by Jost on September 26, 2006, at 23:25:59
'I wish we had simply focused on making Afghanistan a place that was much better than it had been.'
Jost, I couldn't agree more. But the mood was too angry, and the balance of opinion in the administration (Cheney, Rumsfeld?) too adverse to nation building. Still, Afghanistan would have been work enough. And had it succeeded it would have gone to the credit of the US. As it is, we shall see....
Not much joy in Iraq or Afghanistan for those individuals most in favour of intervention, women, gays and so on. I wonder if the blogger from Baghdad is still around?
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