It's a problem alright.

It's not easy to know what to do, when, like so many other third world hellholes... there's a dozen villains for every decent person.

-- “Unfortunately, the majority of the lower and upper houses of parliament are warlords and people with blood on their hands,” said Nafas Gul, a female senator for Farah province who voted against the resolution.

“It's a betrayal of the rights of Afghans.”

There are those, like Jack Layton, who would have left all the warlords to their own devices... which translated into a society based on murder and torture and wholesaling heroin to the civilised world.

And there are those who opt to attempt to move such a society into the company of modern democratic nations.

Sometimes... I believe, despite all obstacles and compromises, you have to do what you can.

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