Monday, August 31, 2009

Voter Fraud in Afghanistan

The New York Times: Reports on the allegations of voter fraud in the Afghan Election, the NYT writes the following, " Western officials say they are increasingly ill at ease with the prospect of a national government in limbo..." Thus the Obama Administration faces two problems, on the one hand it has a corrupt government in Afghanistan, that should not be new to Chicago Politicians in the West Wing, on the other it will get a request for more troops by the end of the year to turn Afghanistan around, thus as Nixon had his policy of Vietnamiztion over the War in Vietnam, Obama will have to develop a Afghnamization of the War in Afghanistan. The biggest problem that the Obama White House will face is selling the idea of more troops in the support of a corrupt government, ballot stuffing in Afghanistan or the allegation that the Governor of Obama's home state tried to sell his Senate seat when he become President, its a matter of spin for Obama White House. As stated in previous post, Obama has about a year and half, if you include the Mid Term Congressional Elections to turn Afghanistan around, if no success expect call to get out of Afghanistan. The problem for Obama is that if he caves to the pressure of the left wing of his party he will place a target on the back on Pakistan. The Taliban/Terrorists could move from the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan back to Afghanistan and then strike Pakistan. The major worry for the West is that secular Pakistan with its nuclear weapons could fall to the Taliban/Terrorists. In that event, India would use its nuclear weapons on Pakistan and you could have a nuclear war in the region. Thus at the end of the day Obama has to sell in Afghan Policy to avoid a domino effect on Pakistan.

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