As reported here, after decades of violent turmoil, the Afghan people turned out to vote for their representatives in the lower house of their government.
After a slow turnout in the morning, things picked up, with thousands of Afghani's turning out to vote, and as they did in Iraq, after voting, they dipped their fingers in indelible ink to both prove they voted and to prevent double voting.
Oh, yeah, one other thing that didn't happen on this historic day in Afghanistan. There were no major attacks by remnants of the Taliban, as they had vowed. I guess the presence of about 100,000 Afghani troops and police, along with about 30,000 foreign troops, may have made the thugs think twice about showing their faces.
I think President Hamid Karzai spoke eloquently well, when he said, "We are making history. It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people. After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions."
And to think some lunatics in our country don't want to see something like this happen, either in Afghanistan, or in Iraq.
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