The final vote totals and election victors have been announced in Afghanistan. It took a while to certify everything, due to vigorous checking for fraud. In fact, some fraud was found and several candidates had their "victories" stripped from them.
As usual, this sort of thing doesn't get a lot of ink, but we should stop for a moment and consider how far Afghanistan has come in 4 years. Back in 2001, the Taliban was well on its way to destroying the country and it's artifacts (Buddhas at Bamiyan, anyone?) while completely ignoring the outcry of almost the entire world. Today, the UN signs off on free elections.
This serves as a reminder that it's not all bad news.
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