It seems the administration's plans to bring democracy to Afghanistan have been successful. The Times of London notes that the "Department for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which was set up by the Taliban to enforce bans on women doing anything from working to wearing nail varnish or laughing out loud, is to be re-created by the government in Kabul." Good job all round guys, and I mean guys.
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It's nice we have straightened out Afghanistan. No more nasty Taliban.
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