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# "Obama's Afghan challenge"
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/obamas-afghan-challenge/
- Published: 2008-11-12T19:11:20.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:42:14.000Z
- Author: Kanishk Tharoor
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:49

Elsewhere in openDemocracy, [Anita Inder Singh](https://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/anita%5Findersingh/obama%5Fafghanistan%5Fchallenge) explores the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which poses one of the toughest foreign policy challenges facing the next president. Singh paints a bleak picture: "The Taliban now control at least one-third of the country; President Karzai'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." Read the rest of the article [here](https://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/anita%5Findersingh/obama%5Fafghanistan%5Fchallenge).