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Actually, we traded one set of bad circumstances (oppressive single government) for a different one (regional warlords and a region which is freer albeit with a higher ambient danger level than before at the center of the country). For some people it is more of an improvement, for others, not so much.


Perhaps you've forgotten that one of those circumstances allowed the open hosting of a terrorist organization that produced the largest terrorist attack in the history of the world. In addition to the terrorist training camps, women were killed for the accidental showing of flesh (as in part of their forearm if the wind caught the fabric of their sleeve), were forbid from learning how to read or any of the countless crimes against women that are very well documented and for some reason, certain people only seemed to care about in 1998. Now, women are allowed to not only go to school, but to teach and vote in the first elections in their country. The terrorist camps care destroyed and Afghanistan is finally allowed to recover from decades of turmoil.

Maybe those "some people" you refer to that don't consider this an improvement are the Taliban.
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Brad B.