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9/11 anniversary: democracy was not doomed to fail in Afghanistan – the US did not live up to its promises

By William Maley, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University

After the signing of the Munich agreement in 1938 that allowed Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia, Winston Churchill spoke of the fate of that country in a powerful speech in the House of Commons:

Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness.

The same could…

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