Dodging a Coup in Kabul, For Now
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Dodging a Coup in Kabul, For Now
“If they keep their commitments,” President Barack Obama said on Wednesday, referring to the two remaining contenders for the Presidency of Afghanistan, then the country “will witness the first democratic transfer of power” in its history.
Secretary of State John Kerry forged those commitments last weekend, when he flew in to prevent a coup attempt and succeeded, for now. His dealmaking salvaged the possibility that, almost thirteen years after the United States and its allies installed Hamid Karzai in power, there would be a manageable political transition in Kabul.