Karzai Faces Reality

Jason Zengerle reacts:

It's obviously significant that Karzai has not only agreed to a run-off, but has acquiesced to holding that run-off on November 7, rather than pushing it back until after the Afghan winter, as some thought he might try to do. And it does give the Obama administration some more room to operate. But how much? Just thinking in terms of timing, it's not likely we'll know the Afghan election results very soon after November 7; after all, we didn't get the final results of the August 20 election until just this week.

But is a couple weeks enough time to organize a second round of voting? And what is to ensure that similar fraud won't occur this time around?