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The Winner of the Afghan Election: Electoral Fraud

Derrick Crowe | Posted 10.21.2009 | World

Read More: Petraeus, U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual, Rethink Afghanistan, Mcchrystal, Afghanistan, U.S. Army, Karzai, Counterinsurgency, Abdullah, Coin, Nagl, World News
Derrick Crowe

We can now stand back in awe as the unpunished perpetrators of massive election fraud vie for control of the criminal enterprise called the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Karzai Appears Set To Agree To Runoff In Afghan Election

New York Times | SABRINA TAVERNISE and HELENE COOPER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan War, Karzai, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghan Recount, Obama, Taliban, Election Results, Hamid Karzai, Afghan War, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, White House, Abdullah, Runoff, Un, Hillary Clinton, World News

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under heavy international pressure, President Hamid Karzai appears set to concede as early as Tuesday that he fell short of a fi...

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New York Times: Military Establishment Frustrated With Pace Of Obama's Deliberations On Afghan War

New York Times | ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: White House, Karzai, Troop Levels, Kabul, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, Pentagon, Afghanistan, Obama, Afghan War, War Dead, Nato, Robert Gtes, Mcchrystal, Stanley McChrystal, Department of Defense, More Troops, Died, Obama Troops, Casualties, World News

After nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise ...

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Afghanistan -- Winning Lessons from Vietnam

John Graham | Posted 10.19.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Vietnam, Kabul, Viet Cong, Opium Money, CORDS Nation-Building, Tet Massacre, Nguyen Van Thieu, Karzai, Thieu Government, CORDS, Obama Administration, Robert Gates, South Vietnamese, Saigon, World News
John Graham

The collapse of US efforts in Vietnam was made inevitable by the pervasive corruption and incompetence of a succession of governments in South Vietnam -- and here lies the lesson for Afghanistan.

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Karzai Camp Hardens Its Line On Afghan Election Recount

Wall Street Journal | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Abdullah Abdullah, Kandahar, White House, Karzai, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Kabul, Obama, Campaign, UN Commission, ECC, Afghan Election Results, More Troops, IEC, Un, World News

KABUL -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai may not accept the results of a vote recount from the summer's general election, officials from his campaign hi...

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Afghan Election Runoff Would Face Daunting Challenges

AP | HEIDI VOGT | Posted 10.14.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Elections, Kabul, Taliban, Afghan Election, World News

KABUL -- Afghan officials would face a daunting task in organizing a runoff presidential election before the arrival of winter -- including hiring un...

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Hamid Karzai: Election Was "Good And Fair"

ABC News | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghan President Karzai, Afghanistan, Karzai Afghanistan, Afghan Election, Afghanistan War, World News

After admitting "instances of fraud" in Afghanistan's highly controversial Aug. 20 election, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that the fight against...

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Kai Eide: UN Official Defends Afghanistan Election Despite Widespread Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Laura King | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah, Election Fraud, Election Results, Gen. McChrystal, Galbraith, Voter Fraud, Karzai, Afghanistan War, Nato, Mcchrystal, Ban Ki-Moon, Afghanistan Election, Taliban, Afghan Election, Afghanistan, Recount, Un, Peter W. Galbraith, Kai Eide, Peter Galbraith, World News

Days before the outcome of Afghanistan's contentious presidential vote was expected to be announced, the head of the United Nations mission in the cou...

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Afghan Recount: Karzai Expected To Win

wsj.com | ANAND GOPAL | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghanistan, Afghan Election 2009, President Karzai, Afghan Election, Afghan Election Results, Karzai Afghanistan, Afghanistan Election, Afghan-Election, Afghan Election Fraud, World News

Afghan election officials began recounting votes from the country's disputed presidential elections Monday and expect to announce the final results in...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.02.2009 | World

Read More: Benyamin Netanyahu, Uk, Guinea, Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq, China, Karzai, Iran, Irish Vote, Guido Westerwelle, Russia, Mahmourd Abbas, Honduras, Solana, Us, Germany, Zelaya, Micheletti, Palestinian, UN General Assembly, G20 Climate Change, Yemen. Lebanon, Medvedev, France, Al Shabaab, Mcchrystal, Georgia, Angela Merkel, Taliban, Afghanistan, Hizbul, Ninawa, Qum, World Affairs, Foreign Affairs Roundup, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

This Past Two Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs

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Peter Galbraith, U.S. Critic Of Karzai, Fired From U.N. Mission

nytimes.com | NEIL MacFARQUHAR | Posted 09.30.2009 | World

Read More: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Afghan Un, Ban Ki-Moon, U.N. Mission Afghanistan, Galbraith, Peter Galbraith, Afghanistan, Afghanistan United Nations, Karzai, United Nations, World News

UNITED NATIONS �" Peter W. Galbraith, the deputy United Nations special representative for Afghanistan and the highest American official for the wor...

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It's the Balance of Power, Stupid!

Leon T. Hadar | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Geo-Politics, Winston Churchill, Empire, Ahmadinejad, Afghanistan, Recognition Lag, Balance of Power, President Obama, Iran, Iraq, NeoCon Foreign Policy, Karzai, President George W. Bush, British Empire, Obama Foreign Policy, World News
Leon T. Hadar

The U.S.' clout may be slipping in the global arena. And yet no one wants to admit it. A failure to do so led to the end of the British Empire, and could mean the same for the U.S.

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Afghanistan: Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.12.2009 | World

Read More: Strategic Bombing, Karzai, M1117, Sheriff of Nottingham, Mraps, Poppy, Afghanistan, Robin Hood, President Obama, Yugoslavia, Taliban, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Oshkosh Truck Corp, Iraq War, Afghan Poppy Crop, Humvees, Michael Brogin, Iraq, Opium, Belgrade, World News
Reese Schonfeld

I would like to propose that we consider another strategy -- strategic bombing. Take poppy fields, for example ... For once, we could be using our billion dollar bombers on billion dollar targets.

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Does Karzai Really Approve McChrystal's Plan?

Sunil Adam | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: U.S. Troops, u.s. Foreign Policy, Terrorism, Pakistan, Gen. McChrystal, Obama, Afghanistan, India, Karzai, World News
Sunil Adam

India's Foreign Minister said the US would be better off seeking a political solution in Afghanistan. It's safe to assume he wouldn't have commented without authentic knowledge of the Afghan government's perspective.

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Karzai, Iran, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Star Wars, Missile Defense, Israel, Al-Shabbab, Obama, Somalia, Uganda, UN Security Council, Putin, Chavez, World News
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

The week's top stories in foreign affairs: Redirecting Missile Defense SI Analysis: The Obama administration announces that it is scraping plans fo...

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Joe Klein: The Afghanistan Problem -- Why Are We In Helmand?

TIME | Joe Klein Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009 | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: u.s. Foreign Policy, Karzai, Military, U.S. Military, War in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Helmand, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Election, Karzai Goverment, World News

In addition to all the other problems we're facing -- the corruption of the Karzai government, the election chaos, the porous Pakistani border -- it h...

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Karzai Adamantly Defends Afghan Poll

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Afghan Poll, Karzai, Afghan Election, Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan, Karzai Afghan Poll, Home News

Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's incumbent president, has dismissed claims that massive fraud took place during last month's presidential election. Karzai...

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Afghan Election: One-Third Of Karzai Votes Are Suspect: EU

New York Times | RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. And SANGAR RAHIMI | Posted 11.16.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghanistan Election 2009, Afghan President Karzai, Election Fraud, Afghanistan, European Union, Afghanistan Election Fraud, Afghan Election, World News

European Union monitors said Wednesday that about one-third of the votes cast for President Hamid Karzai in the Aug. 20 election are suspicious and sh...

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Constitutional Death Spiral in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.14.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Abdullah Abdullah, Rethink Afghanistan, Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Karzai, World News
Derrick Crowe

It's no longer a question of whether Afghanistan is "worth it." The only question left to answer is, "how much more Hell will we put our young men and women through?"

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Afghan Body Throws Out Ballots From 83 Vote Sites

AP | DOUGLAS BIRCH and JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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KABUL — A U.N.-backed fraud commission threw out votes Thursday from 83 polling stations and ordered recounts at hundreds of others in three pro...

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Afghanistan Election: Partial Recount Ordered By U.N.-Backed Panel

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and HEIDI VOGT | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Recount, Kabul, Abdullah Abdullah, Recount Ordered, U.N., Independent Electoral Commission, Voter Fraud, Afghan Election, Karzai, World News

KABUL — A U.N.-backed commission found "convincing evidence" of fraud Tuesday in Afghanistan's presidential election and ordered a recount of su...

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Strategic Communications and the Graveyard of Empires

John Brown | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Psychological Warfare, Aghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, Propaganda, 9/11, Strategic Communications, Public Affairs, Michael Mullen, Karzai, Public Diplomacy, World News
John Brown

A conflict between Richard Holbrooke and Admiral Michael Mullen over public diplomacy in Afghanistan could be no more than the usual Washington tempest in a teapot. Or it might reflect a major problem.

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Karzai Increases Lead In Afghan Election, Fraud Accusations Pour In To Electoral Complaint Commission

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Karzai, Afghan President Karzai, Afghanistan Presidential Election, Independent Election Commision, Afghanistan, Afghan Election, Home News

KABUL — President Hamid Karzai widened his lead over his main challenger in election returns released Saturday, creeping toward the 50 percent m...

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Complaints Of Afghan Election Fraud Serious Enough To Affect Results

Reuters | Posted 09.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghanistan Government, Afghan President Karzai, Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan Election, Afghanistan Election Fraud, Afghan Election Fraud, Afghan Election, World News

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints of fraud or abuse in last week's disputed pres...

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Afghan Elections Intended To Pacify The West: Commentary

nytimes.com | JEAN MacKENZIE | Posted 09.26.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Karzai, Afghanistan Election 2009, US Afghanistan, Afghanistan, US Afghanistan Election, Afghan Election 2009, Us Afghan Election, President Karzai, Obama Karzai, Afghanistan Election, Afghan Election, World News

The haste with which U.N. Special Representative Kai Eide held a press conference to say that Aug. 20 was "a good day for Afghanistan" merely served t...

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