Anyone Remember Afghanistan?:

"The inevitable postponement this week of Afghanistan's presidential and parliamentary elections can only diminish the Bush camp's hopes of using progress in Afghanistan to divert attention from the quagmire in Iraq. In January this year, to the UN's dismay, Afghanistan's interim President, Hamid Karzai, brought the elections forward to June, reportedly under pressure from Washington. Mr Karzai's decision to reschedule the polls for September keeps alive the possibility that Mr Bush may still get a democratic exercise of sorts. Afghanistan, however, remains woefully ill prepared for its first free election in over four decades. It has much to lose if the groundwork is not properly, and patiently, laid."