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Anton was a part of the Bush administration and he knows the thinking that went into the awful idea of turning Afghanistan and Iraq into democracies.\u00a0 He lays out the mindset that went into it and then describes how all that played<\/a> out over the last twenty years.\u00a0 Once again we see the fear of admitting that not all people are exactly alike causing untold damage.\u00a0 Saying that Arabs and Afghans don’t care about democracy but do care about their traditional beliefs might have saved us from wasting thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.\u00a0 Hopefully the next president will hold up the Bush and Obama administrations as examples of how allowing nonsense to be the basis of foreign policy is too dangerous to allow.\u00a0 Trying to turn Afghans into woke westerners who fly rainbow flags and believe in transgender rights is just about the stupidest thing imaginable.\u00a0 All our experiment is going to achieve is cause untold thousands of young Afghans to be whiplashed by the change from American progressive mindset to medieval Muslim practices.\u00a0 Many of them will be lucky to get off with some whip marks on their backs.\u00a0 The unlucky ones may get stoned or beheaded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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