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…showed last 75 words of 1141 total…inhabitants. In the haven and encouragement they provide terrorists, they also cause decay of geopolitical order. Afghanistan and its ilk are like collapsed stars, ceasing to cast useful light but disrupting vast regions with intense and malignant radiation. In today's new security environment, we must find remedies for states that implode. If Afghanistan is to avoid the painful precedent of partition, the Afghans themselves will have to make the best of their barely charted aspirations.