Gave some of the Facts

The article, With Karzai, U.S. Faces Weak Partner in Time of War in the NY Times, was an interesting article that not only reported on the recent drop-out of Abdullah Abdullah in Afghanistan's run-off election, but also tied in important facts about the progress of the war in Afghanistan. The election was a crucial component in establishing a legitimate government in Afghanistan that the people respect. A respected government faces a smaller chance of its citizen's rebelling or turning over to the Taliban. However, Karzai, the victor of the election, did not always demonstrate the best campaign etiquette which gets his presidency off to a bad start. Now, America has to some how work with Karzai, because the election really was a product of making Afghanistan a democratic state. The Obama administration hopes that Karzai finds a way to rally his people behind him. If he is able to do this, maybe some day soon the Afghan army will be strong enough to handle the Taliban without U.S. help and corruption will cease to be so commonplace in the government.

The article does do a lot of speculation. It makes me hopeful that the US will one day come out of this war because the overall plan of the Obama administration does sound convincing. The article should have discussed the process required to reducing corruption and increasing the Afghan government's standing. The article supplied me with necessary facts about the current state of the US occupation and it did sort of mention the change in leadership style expected of Karzai, but once again no real details were given. The facts were there, but the whole story wasn't nearly close to complete.