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Article: Setback in Afghanistan; The right response is not a retreat.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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LAST MONTH we expected that Afghanistan's elections would mark a
modest step forward for the country. Now it appears that they could
be a major reverse. Though the election campaign was positive in
many respects, Election Day itself is emerging as a disaster of
relatively low turnout and massive irregularities -- including
ballot-box-stuffing on behalf of both incumbent President Hamid
Karzai and his leading opponent. Unless the fraud can be reversed or
repaired through a U.N.-backed complaints commission or a runoff
vote, Mr. Karzai may emerge as a crippled winner, his already weak
and corruption-plagued administration facing further discredit or
even violent protests.
This grim prospect ...
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