Thank god for democracy

It may be tempting sometimes to shout cuss words etc and question if this is a democracy here or not, or the US, or Western Europe.

But tune into the BBC at Ten today via iView or whatever and watch the segment about women in Afghanistan right now. It's just disgusting.

Many Australians died in Afghanistan, thousands of Americans and others, to change all this and it's been a complete waste of their lives.

Why has this happened? I just can't understand it.