Afghanistan Election Could Mean 'All Bets Are Off'

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By John T. Bennett
June 29, 2012

"All bets are off" in Afghanistan later this decade if a regime more corrupt than that of sitting chief executive Hamid Karzai is elected, says one U.S. military expert.

Elections slated for 2014 in Afghanistan will coincide with the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the war- and corruption-torn nation. Afghans are expected to elect a new president then, as Karzai reportedly has backed off plans to seek another term.

Michael O'Hanlon, a military analyst at the Brookings Institution, told a House panel Friday that a senior Afghan official recently confided that his top security concern is the coming presidential election.

"It we elect the wrong person," O'Hanlon said the Afghan official told him, "all bets are off."

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/dotmil/2012/06/29/afghanistan-election-could-mean-all-bets-are-off

[Turbineguy]

1. More corrupt?

All those republicans who get voted out in the US in November are moving to Afghanistan?