how stupid are we???

[Rog]

Originally Posted by myrrh

Why can't the run Afghanistan? Just because they don't have a democracy that is approved by the US and it's allies? Look at China. Look at all the South American governments, etc etc. Why can't people of their country run their country however they want, without the Western countries stepping in and trying to dictate 'how' they should be run.

I am not trying to debate the treatment of women, but lets be fair here, when we say that the while the Taliban took the women issue to one extreme, in the West we have taken it to the other.

they did run afghanistan, and were ruthless at it........but i agree with you totally about the western style democracy thing, it would never work and is an alien concept for afghani,s. i also agree in part with your assessment of the treatment of women in the east and west.