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2006-08-17 Afghanistan

Reality Hurts: Democracy on TV does Afghan MPs few favours

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Posted by Flavinter Phung9488 2006-08-17 03:03|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, OK. How about some comparative footage as well, say of the Tawianese assembly. Lively floor debates and 'Jackie Chan' fights. Just make sure the next day the members of parliament park their shootn irons at the front door, it being Afghanistan and all.

Posted by Glurt Flavitch2274 2006-08-17 09:48|| 2006-08-17 09:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Look at it this way - the Taliban were a bunch of clowns, but the unwashed masses never got the opportunity to laugh at them - on pain of death. Politicians aren't all that useful anyway, so you might as well get a few laughs out of them.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2006-08-17 10:56|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2006-08-17 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 O dear. Has a whiff of Humiliation (TM) to it... as well as a mortal blow to Dignity (R).

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-08-17 10:59|| 2006-08-17 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 They worry about humiliation, the West revels in it.

Posted by J. Springer 2006-08-17 11:13|| 2006-08-17 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Watch a random Senate session on C-SPAN. Or, watch the Knesset. Or, for great fun, watch the English Parliament's Question Time. The Afghanis have nothing to complain about.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-08-17 16:31|| 2006-08-17 16:31|| Front Page Top

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