I can't believe the Blob is going with "Afghanistan was just like Japan/Germany/South Korea." Do they not have a better argument than that?
The idea that the USA Afghan government has any democratic legitimacy is undermined by massive documentation of thorough going corruption (documentation collected by USA gov't itself)https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/afghanistan-war-confidential-documents/ …
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Lots of elected governments are very corrupt. Were the elections competitive? Could a leader with a very different agenda than the incumbent win? Those are the criteria that I would use in determining whether a regime should be defended against forcible overthrow.
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If you looked at an election in eastern India in the 1990s, say, with intimidation, attacks on poll stations and vote-buying, an observer might think, "this isn't a democracy." But they'd be wrong. Even with the flaws, ultimately voters can remove one party and bring in another.
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