Maybe we should just drop the pretense of bringing democracy to these countries we bomb
“Afghanistan’s warlords are stronger today then they were ten days ago before the loya jirga started,” said Saman Zia-Zarifi, senior researcher for Human Rights Watch. “Short term political expediency has clearly triumphed over human rights.”
Once again, the US government uses the word democracy over and over to justify a war, and then does nothing to actually bring it about, resulting in situations like the current one in Afghanistan. Read the story here.