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I am not advocating imposing democracy, however, in Afghanistan, much like Iraq, we have gone in, changed the regime and not secured the future of the country. We have to assume responsibility for our actions. Afghanistan, more than Iraq, is not a nation that lends itself to democracy. It lends itself to rule by Ak47. Many people have been killed by us in Afghanistan, some of them knew of nothing outside of their valley.
Therefore we have created a power vacuum in Iraq and Afghanistan and i believe it is our responsibility to restore stability. To create a situation where the Afghani and Iraqi people's can determine their own government. This means we have to stay behind, to help educate and protect the populace.
If we do not tidy up, those nations will descend at worst into Anarchy (Iraq) and at best into the same tribal feudalisms that they were before hand (Afghanistan). Either way thousands of people will have died for nothing because we haven't even managed to stop AQ operating. All we did was remove the Taleban. A group that didn't even control the majority of the country.
I do not think that i have a contradiciton here. I am concerned to ensure that the "coalition of the willing" does not turn into the "coalition of the wanting".
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