Second Election in Afghaistan ?

The Times: Reports on the possibility of a second round of the Presidential Election in Afghanistan due to the fraud in the first round. Just seen the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on CNN, it seems that the US has accepted that for the next few years the President of Afghanistan will be President Karzai. The chances of a second round are dim, the second round would have the same level of fraud, why should it change, also the weather has a negative fact or the chances of a second round. The article notes the chance of a national government in Kabul, is this really a good idea, in the case of Afghanistan you can make an argument that the DEAL is part of Afghan culture, but this is about elites making deals between themselves, what about the people of Afghanistan, they want security and some hope at the end of the day, its not about who is Mayor of Kabul. I have my doubts about a unity government, looks more like pressure from the West, in other words colonial rule, we have been down this road before in Afghanistan, always baits us in the backside.

The CIA and the Kennedy Assassination

The New York Times: Reports on secret documents that the CIA is refusing to release as the come under the scope of the Kennedy's Administration attempt to overthrow President Castro of Cuba. The lack of openness is seen has having a connection to the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, the NYT writes the following on the the idea that the CIA was behind in some manner the death of President Kennedy, " Probably not. But you would not know it from the C.I.A.’s behavior.......even researchers with no use for conspiracy thinking question its stance. " The point of an intelligence agency is to keep secrets, those that work for the CIA or MI6 have to trust to use an intelligence term that they wont be blown, as some those that work for these agencies are from abroad and would be seen as traitors by their own governments or terrorists groups it is important that the Western Agencies keep faith with these people. Lets say the USA or the UK needs information on a terrorist cell and we turn a terrorist,he or she needs to know that we wont release their names, as they would be under threat and their families. Thus good job by the CIA to keep state secrets.