Afghan elections: 80% puppetry, 20% political dram
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Afghan elections: 80% puppetry, 20% political drama
Editorial
By Ben Tanosborn
Friday, 07 August 2009
In less than two weeks, Afghanistan will hold its second presidential elections since the United States occupied that country in November 2001. Democratic elections, we deem them to be, although many Afghans and foreigners alike consider the process more of an American coronation of another vassal-monarch from that celebrated dynasty: the House of Dollar.
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