I haven't said much about the election in Afghanistan yet because it's being covered much more effectively elsewhere, and it will be a while few weeks before it's really possible to determine how successful the election was anyway--and it looks like there may be a runoff. That said, both Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah have praised the way the elections have gone thus far, which bodes well both for the legitimacy of the election and for avoiding post-election violence. That said, Spencer Ackerman notes that Abdullah's statement about election security affecting turnout "could still become a pretext for rejectionism."
-- A. Serwer
