Afghanistan Holds Legislative Elections

The weekend featured two key elections: Germany and Afghanistan.  Both involved millions of people confronting new worlds.  Of the two, Germany was clearly the more backward.  The Germans faced a choice between a demonstrably failed policy and a lukewarm prospect of reform.  They straddled the fence.

Afghanistan is the real story. 

From USA Today:

By Paul Wiseman

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan voters by the millions braved Taliban threats and contended with bewildering ballots Sunday to pick a new parliament for the first time in three decades.  . . . Ed Morgan, chief of a delegation from the non--—profit International Foundation for Election Systems, estimated a turnout of 7 million of the 12.4 million registered voters. Eight million voted in November.

What is astounding is that the left has virtually no interest in such events.