http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/afghanistan_obama_challenge Comments for ""Obama's Afghan challenge", Kanishk Tharoor " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/afghanistan_obama_challenge <p> Elsewhere in openDemocracy, <a href="/terrorism/article/anita_indersingh/obama_afghanistan_challenge" target="_blank">Anita Inder Singh</a> explores the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which poses one of the toughest foreign policy challenges facing the next president. Singh paints a bleak picture: &quot;The Taliban now control at least one-third of the country; President Karzai&#39;s fledging elected government struggles to extend its authority beyond the capital Kabul; and wracked by growing divisions and doubts, NATO seems to be at risk of losing a seven-year old war.&quot; Read the rest of the article <a href="/terrorism/article/anita_indersingh/obama_afghanistan_challenge" target="_blank">here</a>. </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/usa/blog/kanishk_tharoor/afghanistan_obama_challenge#comment openUSA afghanistan election Kanishk Tharoor Obama openUSA openUSA USA Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:01:20 +0000 Kanishk Tharoor 46770 at http://www.opendemocracy.net