From: Adam Flinton 

jeff wrote:
> Adam Flinton wrote:
>
>> jeff wrote:
>>
>>> Adam Flinton wrote:
>>>
>>>> Geo wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> "Adam Flinton"
 wrote in message
>>>>> news:419de2b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically the vote broke down into ethnic groups
voting for "their"
>>>>>> warlord with Karzai getting the Pashtun &
Baluchi vote, Qanooni
>>>>>> getting
>>>>>> the Tajik vote, Mohaqiq getting the Hazara vote
& Dostum getting the
>>>>>> Uzbek vote.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> You know, amazing as it seems that sounds like
standard politics to
>>>>> me. 
>>>>>
>>>>> Geo. (I'm going to mark Afghanistan in the success column now)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It depends on wether your local pols use weapons etc to encourage
>>>> "voter participation" where participation means
vote for the man
>>>> with his gunmen in close proximity to the voting station...
>>>>
>>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Which, apparently, did not happen.
>>>
>>
>> Really. Odd that. I may have seen contra-indicators.
>>
>> So where are your examples?
>>
> http://www.whistlestopper.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-19633
> http://www.defendamerica.mil/articles/oct2004/a101204b.html
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3733454.stm
> http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9886245.htm
>
> Nothing about Warlords holding guns to people's heads as they voted
> there...
>

Yeah wherever ISAF is there are the journos.


>>> Sorry Adam, you're just going to have to be disappointed that it
>>> wasn't an unmitigated disaster.
>>>
>>
>> I never thought it would be. I did think it would be handing over to a
>> the US's chosen warlord dressed up with some legitimacy.
>>
>> Much as Alawi is not the legitimate ruler of Iraq but simply the US's
>> favourite (ex)Baathist strongman.
>>
>> I wonder how well he/his party will do when the real elections for the
>> real gov roll around in a year or so.
>>
>> Similar thing in many ways. US's golden boy from the majority ethnic
>> community.
>>
>> Adam
>
>
> Adam, fill your glass up the rest of the way will you? Hearing this
> constant stream of 'half empty' gets tiresome.


It's not 1/2 empty, it's reality. Get used to the fact that most of the
world ain't America & ain't going to be America.

You are creating local favourites who you promote to run your recently
conquerered countries. Nothing wrong with that but at least be honest about
it.

Adam

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