Democracy means voting for your friendly neighborhood dictator

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When the rest of the world is a Utopia, then we can try to sort out the willfully backward, barbaric corrupt dumps.

The problem is that this willful, corrupt barbarism has a tendency to spread like an infectious disease. For example, if we withdraw from Afghanistan, then the Taliban after overpowering the regime in Kabul, will turn its eyes outward, to Pakistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc. We are basically containing a fire so that it does not engulf the entire region.