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Annals of Unfortunate Analogies

by David Kurtz
09.02.09 | 12:38 pm

U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke waves off the “irregularities” in the Afghanistan election as similar to the protracted Minnesota Senate election.

Guess that makes the incumbent Karzai, our ostensible ally there, the Norm Coleman of Afghanistan.

Coleman, um, lost.

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