Voter Fraud in Afghanistan - Part Two

The New York Times: Reports on the alleged voter fraud by President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, the NYT writes the following, " Mr. Karzai’s campaign is accused of forging ballots, stealing votes and preventing people from going to the polls. " This is very awkward for the Obama Administration, does it allow Mr Karzai to do a Diem of South of Vietnam, in other words fix an election, or does it demand a new election and look like a colonial power wanting to get the results it wants. Also lets not forget that the above runs in to conflict with the New Strategy for Afghanistan by the US Military, building support from the ground up for the Government in Kabul. The idea of the new strategy is to protect the people more than fighting the insurgents, that has always seem odd to this writer, cant the US Army do both, also you will never get a Western Election in Afghanistan, it just depends who can stuff the ballot boxes more, it can be argued that if you have a new election, with a different result the other side will have things that wont pass the smell test. As the article in the Liberal New York Times points out, "... southern Afghan tribe called Bariz... " has changed sides in the election, but the allegation is that President Karzai got his men to stuff all the ballots in his favour. Thus you have tribal politics and corruption, okay its sounds like something out of 20th Century American politics in the 1900's but elections have always been thus, it takes time and lets not get on pedestal, lets recall the 1960 and 2000 Presidential Race in the USA. Thus it can be argued that President Obama should hold his nose and accept President Karzai but make it clear that the Karzai could have the same fate as Diem in less in changes the civics of Afghanistan.