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  "Winning Hearts and Minds" sounds so much like the Americans in Vietnam, before they pulled out. In areas with a Western presence there will be those who want to support a 'moderate' regime and some prepared to openly show their support but it will not apply to the majority. Most people are averse to change and want nothing more to live in the 'traditional' way and if that means they have to work with whoever holds the power at that time then so be it.
  
  The West supported a rebel insurrection in Libya and as a result we have seen war graves desecrated and the country beginning to split in two (probably three or four before it is over). Afghanistan has a number of traditional tribal regions and it would be easy to see the same thing happening if left with a Western biased government.
  
  The British troops are doing what they always do, their very best with the situation they have been given but any dream of leaving them with something the West would consider a stable government is just a dream. They are not a Western country and will probably never be one. The Afghans still tell stories about the evil Alexander the Great, how soon before the evil Britain and America join the saga's?

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