A no-win situation

The liberal daily Mladá Fronta Dnes calls the current poitical crisis in Afghanistan before the run-off election for the office of president a no-win situation: "The West and Afghanistan have only two possibilities, whereby one is worse than the other: either there will be no run-off vote or there will be one with Karzai as the only candidate. Anything else will make a mockery of both the regime and the West that supports it. ... This is the result of eight years of effort to establish democracy in the region and modernise the medieval conditions which reign there. ... But this tragedy does have a comic aspect. If [Karzai's challenger Abdullah] Abdullah packs his bags, Ramazan Baschardost, the third contestant in the first ballot, could now enter the ring. He's saying that Karzai and Abdullah falsified the first ballot to such an extent that they deserve the Nobel Prize for Fraud."

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