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2009-08-16 Afghanistan

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Posted by ed 2009-08-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 oh my... a youthful, charismatic community organizer. what could could possibly go wrong?

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-08-16 01:06|| 2009-08-16 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Nothing could go wrong---not in Afghanistan (bullets not ballots).

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-08-16 03:06|| 2009-08-16 03:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I dunno--I think this is positive. The young Afghan immigrants I have met LOVE democracy and have taken to America well. I had the privilege of observing a Pashtun wedding reception recently and the girls spent a lot of time in the bathroom touching up makeup and hairdos, while the young men sported trendy eyeware and shoes. And the couples were not segregated, danced together, and visited the bar for a drink and a smoke! Reaching the young generation is key. Karzai has been in power for nearly a decade and no one else seems to be in the wings. This is democracy in action--they don't need any more warlords or chieftains. If it gets stabilized, many of these refugees can return home with the skills they have learned in the States.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-08-16 11:39|| 2009-08-16 11:39|| Front Page Top

#4 I agree it's a positive sign. However, I imagine on closer examination these will turn out almost exclusively to be young city Afghans, not kids from a village so isolated it connects to the outside world only by goat trail. Kabul was long more modern than the rest of the country -- as I recall, the girls there were wearing miniskirts in the days before the Russian invasion.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-16 13:28|| 2009-08-16 13:28|| Front Page Top

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