Credibility

Wall Street Journal:

"Not everyone's going to vote," said Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, after a trip to the region last week.

Holbrooke said the vote will still be credible. "It's an extraordinary thing to hold an election in the middle of a war," he told reporters in Washington.

Personally, I've always thought it was an extraordinary thing to hold an election in the middle of somebody else's country!