Reply #50: The problem is...

[The Deacon]

...that when you promote the idea that people have the right to choose the government they live under you have to also admit that their choice of government might not be to your liking. This is very much different from Saudi Arabia (where the Ibn Saud were chosen by the British to rule.) This is the government the Afghan people chose. I am likewise amused by the Bushis continuing muttering about Iran's influence in Iraq due to the Shiite majority - didn't ANYONE point out to Rumsfeld that the Sunni minority had been repressing the Shiite majority for decades, and that the Shiite majority had a longstanding relationship (going back centuries) with their co-religionists in Iran?