BBC News: Reports that Dr Abdullah the former Afghanistan Foreign Minister has withdrawn from the second round of the Afghanistan Presidential Election. It seems that Dr Abullah was worried that the second round would only repeat the fraud of the first round. On the whole this is good news, no need for UK troops to secure the polling stations against attack from the Taliban/Al Qaeda, what the points of having a second round if there is only one candidate, if the second round goes ahead and soldiers are either hurt or die whats would be the point, as stated in this blog, months ago, it seems like years that President Karzai would win the Afghan Election, that was already set in stone, what we have seen shadow boxing within Afghan politics and a turf fight in the West Wing between VP Biden who wants to scale back troops in Afghanistan and use drones to attack Taliban/ Al Qaeda in Pakistan and the US military who want to give the troops as requested by US Commander on the ground, General McChrystal. If we are stuck in Afghanistan and are nation building lets get going, all this shadow boxing is helping the Taliban/Al Qaeda.
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