31-07-2019 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com

Glavin: Afghanistan has defied disasters. Can it survive Donald Trump?

Over the last 18 years, Afghanistan’s fragile democracy has limped and stumbled its way through election fraud, corruption and gross incompetence, but it has somehow managed to survive all that, and Pakistan’s persistent subversions, and the Taliban’s ceaseless, bloody assaults, besides. But now that this year’s twice-delayed presidential election campaign is finally underway, a more disturbing question is making the rounds in Kabul: Can a sovereign and democratic Afghan
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