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		<title>Making Afghanistan a Western-style Democracy is a Futile Effort</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abdullah Abdullah]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[elections not a source of legitimacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai rigged election results]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karzai’s political rival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pure Greek democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tribal culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Democracies make elections, elections don&#8217;t make democracies.’ This applies particularly to Afghanistan that has been trying to be a democracy since the Bonn Agreement that created the country’s post-Taliban government in 2001. Even more desperate than this attempt are the never-tiring efforts of the West, especially the United States, to approach Afghanistan as a Western-style [...]]]></description>
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