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John Kerry

karynnj

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1. NYT still unhappy over process, does give credit in its oped to Kerry and his team

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Mon Sep 22, 2014, 04:35 PM

Sep 2014

At the end of the day, the millions of Afghan voters who defied Taliban threats to cast ballots are now left wondering if their votes counted. Mr. Ghani’s presidency was not, by any reasonable measure, the result of a fair and credible election. Even so, Secretary of State John Kerry and his team in Kabul deserve recognition for formulating a power-sharing plan that gave the Afghans a way out of a crisis that could easily have plunged the country into a disastrous cycle of violence. If it works, this will mark the first peaceful transfer of power in the country’s history.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/22/opinion/a-shaky-step-forward-in-afghanistan.html

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