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More important, a few Republican candidates have demonstrated that it is possible to transcend the party's conservative-moderate divide. In Virginia, Robert McDonnell won a landslide - the first Republican win in a governor's race there in 12 years - by running as a problem solver. Social conservatives know he...
The end of the election limbo allows Karzai and his Western partners to move forward. In three weeks, he will announce his cabinet choices and begin work on important security, economic and governance issues that had been put on hold during the election. And that will also provide an opportunity...
On Nov. 2, the 2½ month saga of the fraud-tainted Afghan presidential election was finally resolved as Karzai was declared the winner after his opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew from a runoff race that he said would not be fair. Abdullah continues to insist that Karzai's re-election...
Karzai on Nov. 3 admitted that "Afghanistan's image has been tainted by corruption." Speaking at his first press conference since his re-election was confirmed, he said, "We will strive, by any means possible, to eradicate this stain." But while his speech was big on promises, many Afghans fear...
Karzai's re-election casts doubt over the prospects for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan to achieve its goals. General Stanley McChrystal, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, insists that the war cannot be won unless there is an effective government in place to partner with Western troops...