What if the Afghan elections actually work?
Afghans will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their second president since the overthrow of the Taliban in the winter of 2001.
You might be wondering: Why bother? After all, doom and gloom are supposedly the order of the day in Afghanistan. A Pew/USA Today poll in January found that slightly more than half of Americans believe the United States has mostly failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan.
A month earlier, a CNN poll found that the Afghan War might well be the most unpopular war in American history. An overwhelming 82% of Americans are now opposed to the war.… Seguir leyendo »