Measuring Success

With the voting over in the first presidential election in the history of Afghanistan, the media is virtually unanimous in declaring failure. Google News search results tell the story.

Results 1 – 10 of about 720 for afghan election fraud.

Jeff Jarvis is confused and dismayed at the negativity. One can only conclude he’s been hiding under a rock for the past three years.
So I tried a few others….

Your search – “Afghan voters killed in blast” – did not match any documents.
Your search – Afghan “polling station blast” – did not match any documents.
Your search – Afghan “polling station violence” – did not match any documents.

Reuters couldn’t even dig one up, though they did record a possible interception.

Results 1 – 1 of about 1 for afghan voters-killed. (0.10 seconds)

Bloomberg.com:

Afghans turned out in “massive” numbers for the nation’s first direct presidential election, a United Nations spokesman said.
“We don’t have numbers have yet, but there was a massive amount of voters and a great deal of enthusiasm,” Manoel de Almeida e Silva said by telephone from Kabul, the Afghan capital. A preliminary count may be ready within two days, and a total count may take up to three weeks, he said.
[…]
There were no reports of voters killed or injured, U.S. Maj. Scott Nelson, spokesman for the Combined Forces Command, said by telephone from Kabul. There was a report of an ambush in Uruzgan province by suspected Taliban militants that left three police officers dead, he said.

I call that a success. And so would the New York Times, WaPo, the LA Tmes and every other major media outlet in North America had it happened with a Democrat in the White House. Get with the program, Jeff!

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