Afghans Go to Polls For Historic Election

WaPo reported Hundreds of thousands of citizens flocked to schools, mosques and tents across Afghanistan on Sunday to vote in this war-weary nation's first legislative elections since 1969, as militants largely failed to follow through on threats to disrupt the balloting with violence.

I guess they were too busy running for their lives, pursued by American and Afgan forces.

The elections marked the final phase of an international plan, drawn up after the ouster of the extremist Taliban government in 2001, to transform Afghanistan into a stable democracy. President Hamid Karzai summed up the sense of pride expressed by many of his countrymen throughout the day as he cast his ballot before television cameras. "We are making history," he said. "It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people.

Congratulations, Afganistan

After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions."