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Colbert: The GOP Is Taking Baby Steps Toward Admitting Reality

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LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)11/18/2020 3:44:33 pm PST

“”re: #190 KGxvi

Granted, the Bush Administration’s reliance on Afghan exiles was probably pretty stupid to begin with… what was the name of the guy they thought was going to swoop in and be the new president?

Think you may be thinking of Iraq and Chalabi. I always saw Iraq as being akin to the former Yugoslavia where once a constant- the Ba’ath party and Hussein in Iraq’s case and Tito in Yugoslavia fell that all hell would break loose. I think the Bush administration like many Americans failed to understand the complexities of the non European nation states. I had an Afghan classmate who was part of the Hazara and Shi’a minority of Afghanistan. If you remember the Kite Runner, the boy with the harelip was in that group and bullied because of it.