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Re:The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years by tremon on Monday November 01, 2021 @05:36AM (#29064600)
How do you determine legitimacy in this case? Because they were the first to claim that power after driving out Afghanistan's royal family?
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Re:The Patriot Act Has Threatened Freedom for 20 Years by throwaway0a5e on Monday November 01, 2021 @06:58AM (#29065138)
Yeah that's pretty much it. Possession is 9/10ths the law.

They might have had poor taste in house guests (which cost them a generation of war) but they are the legitimate government of Afghanistan

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