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It's no surprise that democracy isn't perfect ("Warlords of Democracy," by Paul Goble).
In an interview with Le Figaro , Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky--the man known as the "Rasputin of the Kremlin" because of his allegedly central role in all major political maneuvers in Russia--denied that he has ever supported the Chechen warlords and blamed them for the recent wave of terrorist bomb attacks.
Paul Goble is not the first person to discover that even the best forms of government are prone to engage in war ("Warlords of Democracy").
Similarly, if we are paying insufficient attention to Afghanistan, the rule of the Taliban or warlords and narcotraffickers may reemerge and its countryside could once again offer refuge to al Qaeda, or its successor.
The fighting brought none of the usual spoils of war that provincial warlords and samurai had come to expect as payment.