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With all due respect, I think we're declining into hairsplitting. We certainly brought in munitions and troops into Afghanistan against the wishes of the dominant government there, with the express intent to overthrow said government.

I believe it was an improvement as far as government is concerned, but it certainly didhn't improve things for a lot of people who "got in the way" during the shelling and bombing.

Whether you call it an invasion or an assisted rebellion, it overthrew a government that was in place -- an authoritarian, dictatorial, oppressive government with a record of human abuse, murder and torture. Not to mention its support of the Al Qaeda network which brought down the WTC.

As such, I would think it left things better off on the whole. But I am not in Afghanistan.

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