Afghan Plan for a Fraud-Free Election Runoff: Increase Potential Sources of Fraud!

Tell me if this makes sense to you. During the Aug. 20 Afghan presidential election, thousands of polling stations either didn’t open to the public or didn’t host election monitors, which allowed election fraud to become so widespread that a full one-third of the votes for incumbent president Hamid Karzai More…

Another COIN Skeptic: Hamid Karzai

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty got an exclusive interview with Hamid Karzai after yesterday’s presidential debate. The whole thing’s fairly predictable — Karzai lists his accomplishments in office and dismisses his critics — until Karzai slips this in:

“I repeat that the war on terrorism is not inside Afghanistan, as

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