A Hero In Karzai

     Standing up for Women's Rights, Hamid Karzai, unopposed elected leader, said, passionately, that men to allow their wives and sisters to register to vote, assuring them, "later, you can control who she votes for, but please, let her go [to register]."  Ah!  The fresh breeze of democracy!

     Or this little snippet, "Many voters in rural areas say the [warlord] militias have already told them how to vote, and that they're afraid of disobeying them."