noteworthy wrote:
] Nine out of 10 eligible Afghans have signed up for landmark
] October elections, the United Nations said Sunday, a
] resounding endorsement of a democratic experiment supposed
] to help Afghanistan turn its back on years of debilitating
] war.
]
]
] ... except when the Afghan news media report that candidates
] are "sniping" at each other, they aren't referring to verbal
] attacks.
]
] WSJ ran a good week-in-review-style article last week entitled
] something like "Good news from Afghanistan" in which the
] reporters highlighted a litany of positive developments in the
] country.

What are you recommending here? Seems like nothing. I could go to a news site for this sort of thing. Please enlighten me to something I may not already know. And who are these eligible afghans, anyway? The twenty people who have addresses?

RE: 90 Percent of Afghans Registered to Vote